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:

In his essay " Chicanismo " in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures ( 2002 ), Jose Cuellar dates the transition from derisive to positive to the late 1950s, with a usage by young Mexican-American high school students.

The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1853.

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is " no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign ," and goes on to say that " the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit female Pope in ".

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first written use of the term for a political movement to 1644, but the source cited there, Marchamont Needham's pamphlet The Case for the Commonwealth of England Stated, dates from 1650.

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in the Harleian Miscellany in 1745.

Zebra in English dates back to c. 1600, from Italian Zebra, perhaps from Portuguese, which in turn is said to be Congolese ( as stated in the Oxford English Dictionary ).

" The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term meaning " female dog " to around 1000 A. D.

This dates back to the early 20th century ; the Oxford English Dictionary notes its first usage in this capacity in 1913.

The earliest use of the term " state of the art " documented by the Oxford English Dictionary dates back to 1910, from an engineering manual by Henry Harrison Suplee ( 1856-post 1943 ), an engineering graduate ( University of Pennsylvania, 1876 ), titled Gas Turbine: progress in the design and construction of turbines operated by gases of combustion.

The 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary dates the word puzzle ( as a verb ) to the end of the 16th century.

The town's history dates to 1761, when local legislator Samuel Benton built a plantation home and called it Oxford.

Various dates are given, with Ian Walker, the biographer of Harold arguing for between 1053 and 1055, but H. E. J. Cowdrey, who wrote Robert's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, says on 26 May in either 1052 or 1055.

" The sense of the word " forensic " that means " pertaining to legal trials " dates from the 17th century ( Oxford English Dictionary ) and led to the use of the word " forensics " in reference to legal evidence.

* Webography ( or webliography ) – websites ( the first use of the word " webliography " recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from June 1995 )

Merriam-Webster dates the term back to 1947, whilst the Oxford English Dictionary has a reference to the term from 1925 ; thus it is relatively new, although nuclear family structures themselves date back thousands of years.

Its use for Chinese military commanders who had a regional power base and ruled independently of the central government dates from the early 1920s, with Bertram Lenox Simpson being one source, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

The following account based on what Symonds wrote is accepted in some quarters, though uncorroborated ; but John Roach writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography points to discrepancies in the dates, and Symonds's own sexual orientation, as reasons to suspend judgement.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first citation for the ' Canada Goose ' dates back to 1772.

: Ballpark, in the ballpark, ballpark figure, and out of the ballpark — " Ballpark " has been used to mean a broad area of approximation or similarity, or a range within which comparison is possible ; this usage the Oxford English Dictionary dates to 1960.

* The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Malek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt ( Oxford, 1980 ).

His earliest antiquarian work dates from this period in Oxford.

The Oxford Companion to the Body dates the origin of the pubic wig to the 1450s.

The Howard de Walden Estate dates from 1715 when Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, began the development of Cavendish Square in London, and the streets around it.