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:

For example, the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine suggests levels of evidence ( LOE ) according to the study designs and critical appraisal of prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and harm studies:

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the name to be a blend of the words gene and chromosome.

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to the word ' wooden ' but that overall the etymology of this word is unclear.

A study by Federico Formenti of the University of Oxford suggests that the earliest ice skating happened in southern Finland about 4000 years ago.

Sobran suggests that the so-called procreation sonnets were part of a campaign by Burghley to persuade Southampton to marry his granddaughter, Oxford's daughter Elizabeth de Vere, and says that it was more likely that Oxford would have participated in such a campaign than that Shakespeare would know the parties involved or presume to give advice to the nobility.

According to the findings of Dr. Christian Davenport of the University of Notre Dame, Professor William Moore of Florida State University, and David Armstrong of Oxford University during their torture research, evidence suggests that non-governmental organizations have played the most determinant factor for stopping torture once it gets started.

Shelagh Vainker, a silk expert at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, sees evidence for silk production in China " significantly earlier " than 2500 – 2000 BC, however suggests " people of the Indus civilization either harvested silkworm cocoons or traded with people who did, and that they knew a considerable amount about silk.

The Oxford Companion to Music suggests an etymology related to the " Blue Mountains of Virginia.

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from " attire ", while other sources suggest a connection with the verb " to tie ".

( The Oxford English Dictionary, however, suggests that the root, sup, retains obscure origins ).

Later ones were horizontal timbers fitted with spikes, a version of what is called a cheval de frise, but the Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the mounting timbers of the originals may have been vertical, since a slightly later sense was of a horizontal cross of timbers turning on a vertical pin, set up to exclude horse-traffic from a footpath, which is in essence the device we now call a turnstile.

While many sources uses the terms stream of consciousness and interior monologue as synonyms, the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms suggests, that " they can also be distinguished psychologically and literarily.

A modern addition to Worcester College, the Canal Building, sits next to the north entrance to the college and, as the name suggests, beside the Oxford Canal.

However the river's name is unlikely to have derived from this behaviour: The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggests that Mole either comes from the Latin mola ( a mill ) or is a back-formation from Molesey ( Mul's island ).

The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggests that Mole either comes from the Latin mola ( a mill ) or is a back-formation from Molesey ( Mul's island ).

The Second Edition Oxford English Dictionary gives the history of the word as obscure, but suggests an apparent derivation from the Greek prefix penta-( five ) combined with the Latin suffix-culum ( diminutive ).

Money suggests that the concept of threshold ( Oxford 1988: 115 )-the release or inhibition of sexual ( or other ) behavior-is most useful for sex research as a substitute for any concept of motivation.

Norman Sanders ( 1968 ), for example, suggests 1590 – 1594 ; Clifford Leech ( 1969 ) argues for 1591 ; The Riverside Shakespeare ( 1974 and 1996 ) places the date at 1590 – 1593 ; The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( 1986 and 2005 ) suggests 1589 – 1591 ; Kurt Schlueter ( 1990 ) posits 1593 ; The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare ( 1997 and 2008 ) suggests 1591 ; Mary Beth Rose ( 2000 ) suggests 1590 ; William C. Carroll ( 2004 ) posits 1590 – 1593 ; Roger Warren ( 2008 ) tentatively suggests 1587, but acknowledges 1590 / 1591 as more likely.