At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary

* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.

* Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.

* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford University Press, 1991 ) ISBN 0-19-504652-8

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:

Since 2005 Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X operating system has come bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source " Oxford American Dictionaries ", and contains the full text of NOAD2.

Streitz credits Oxford with the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations credits this novel with the first printed appearance of the phrase " There's no free lunch ", although the phrase and its abbreviation considerably predate the novel.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits William J. Grayson with having first used the phrase master race, in his poem The Hireling and the Slave ( 1855 ):

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot.

His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose.

And the prestigious Oxford Brookes University even recognizes the CBDDip as 20 of 80 credits in its MBA ( Global )!

The Oxford English Dictionary credits him as one of the earliest users of the word sexist, in the pamphlet " Freedom for Movement Girls Now ", published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee ( a progressive student organization in the southern United States ), wherein he was active during the 1960s.

Having graduated from the Oxford School of Drama in 2008, Laurence has built up a portfolio of theatre credits including ' Twelfth Night ' with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mad Forest and Paradise Lost at Southwark Playhouse.

During his time on Blue Peter, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits him with coining two quotations now prominent in British popular culture: the line " And now for something completely different " – later taken up by, and usually attributed to, Monty Python – was used as a segue to different parts of the programme ; and " Here's one I made earlier " was used during the construction of models on the show, and has since been adopted by nearly all subsequent presenters on Blue Peter.

* Robin Le Poidevin, ( 2010 ) Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-957526-8

The earliest reference to " Robin Goodfellow " cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1531.

Yudkowsky was, along with Robin Hanson, one of the principal contributors to the blog Overcoming Bias sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.

Most unabridged English editions of the novel, including the Modern Library and Oxford World's Classics editions, use this translation, although Penguin Classics published a new translation by Robin Buss in 1996.

* Law, Robin: The Oyo Empire c. 1600 – c. 1836, Oxford 1977.

Andrew Wyntoun is most famous for his completion of an eight-syllabled metre entitled, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, which contains an early mention of Robin Hood ; it is also cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest work in English to use the word " Catholic ": modernized " He was a constant Catholic ;/ All Lollard he hated and heretic.

* Robin Waterfield's Notes to his translation of Plato's ' Phaedrus ', Oxford University Press, 2002.

by Robin Waterfield, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford, 2005, ISBN 0-19-282430-9

The most readily available are those by Brian Nelson ( The Ladies ' Paradise ) in 1995 for Oxford World's Classics and by Robin Buss ( The Ladies ' Delight ) in 2002 for Penguin Classics.

A detailed edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica in 2 volumes was published by Oxford University Press in 1986, edited and comprehensively annotated by Robin Robbins.

* Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time, Robin LePoidevin, 2003, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-875255-5 * The Ontology of Time, L Nathan Oaklander, 2004, Prometheus Books, ISBN 1-59102-197-9

In the 2000-2001 academic year, Gaddis was the George Eastman Professor at Oxford, the second scholar ( after Robin Winks ) to have the honor of being both Eastman and Harmsworth professor.

At University College, Oxford, where he read Classics, he shared tutorials with Robin Butler, later Cabinet Secretary and sometimes referred to as a " pillar of the Establishment ".

Born in Oxford, Lane Fox is the daughter of author and classical historian Robin Lane Fox.

The region also furnished some important material for folk songs, including a claim by Nottinghamshire for one of the most popular series of ballads, that of Robin Hood, while local places appear in songs such as ‘ The Leicester Chambermaid ’ and ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Worcester City ’.

Chairman Robin Herd stepped down to concentrate on his engineering projects, and in April 1999 Firoz Kassam bought Herd's 89. 9 % controlling interest in Oxford United for £ 1, with which he also inherited the club's estimated £ 15 million debt.

Claudio Ciborra, Robin Mansell, Danny Quah, Roger Solverstone, Oxford University Press, ( forthcoming )

Robin D. Hanson ( born August 28, 1959 ) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.

P-Orridge began to take an increasing interest in infantilism, founding a fictitious school of art, the L ' ecole de l ' art infantile, whose work culminated in a 1983 event known as the Baby's Coumpetition held at Oxford University's May Festival, which he had co-organised with Robin Klassnik and Opal L. Nations.

* Robin Denniston, ‘ Unwin, Sir Stanley ( 1884 – 1968 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 11 Jan 2008

His friends at Oxford included Robin Day, William Rees-Mogg, Jeremy Thorpe and Michael Heseltine.

* Robin Tzannes, Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions, ( Oxford University Press ) 1992