* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

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

The Oxford Guide to World English.

* The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs ( Oxford University Press ) ISBN 0-19-515382-0

* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

In Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide: 411 – 423.

The Oxford Guide to Heraldry.

Scotland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide ( 1998 ) online edition

" The origins of Hangman are obscure, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times ," says Tony Augarde, author of " The Oxford Guide to Word Games " ( Oxford University Press ).

Oxford Guide to World English.

* Lindow, John ( 2002 ) Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs ( Oxford University Press ) ISBN 978-0-19-515382-8

& Rundell, Michael ( 2008 ) The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography, Oxford U. P.

* Guide to the Elements-Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

The Oxford Guide to Word Games.

* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

* Ride, W. D. L .. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia, published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1970, ISBN 19 550252 3

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend.

) Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, Oxford University Press ( 2002 ), p. 432f.

" Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend.

* Thomas Woodcock and John Martin Robinson, The Oxford Guide to Heraldry ( Oxford 1990 ISBN 0-19-285224-8 ); figure, p. 200

The Oxford Guide to Heraldry.

John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and co-author of The Oxford Guide to Heraldry, gave his opinion that " Lordship of this or that manor is no more a title than Landlord of The Dog and Duck ".

According to John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and co-author of The Oxford Guide to Heraldry, " Lordship of this or that manor is no more a title than Landlord of The Dog and Duck ".

The Oxford Guide to Heraldry.

The Oxford Guide to Heraldry.

* Bird and Baby, the familiar name used by the Inklings for the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford ( see above under Heraldry ).

While at Oxford, he was one of the original subscribers to John Woodward and George Burnett's Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign ( 1892 ), and he had a lifelong interest in heraldry.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary states that the word " ften ( and perhaps originally ) applied to a quibbling or evasive way of dealing with difficult cases of duty.

The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses.

* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The cults of the Greek states I: Zeus, Hera Athena Oxford, 1896.

Another modern hypothesis ( the so-called " Jutish hypothesis "), accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary, states that the Jutes are identical with the Geats, a people who once lived in southern Sweden.

" The 2009 Random House Dictionary states the word is offensive, and the 2009 Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines it as derogatory in nature.

The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's " earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ... since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, ABBA, etc.

The Oxford English Dictionary states, however, that the term comes from the Latin word sambucus, meaning " elderberry ".

The spelling barbeque is given in Merriam-Webster OnLine as a variant spelling, while the Oxford English Dictionary states that barbecue is " often misspelled as barbeque ".

Cnut's mother was the daughter of the first duke of the Polans, Mieszko I ; her name may have been Świętosława ( see: Sigrid Storråda ), but the Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown.

Reflecting different national usages, cunt is described as " an unpleasant or stupid person " in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, whereas Merriam-Webster has a usage of the term as " usually disparaging and obscene: woman ", noting that it is used in the U. S. as " an offensive way to refer to a woman "; the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English states that it is " a despicable man ", however when used with a positive qualifier ( good, funny, clever, etc.

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary states that the word may have originated from the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s.

The Oxford English Dictionary states that John Doe is " the name given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff, in the ( now obsolete in the UK ) mixed action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being called Richard Roe ".

A popular urban myth at Oxford University states that Wilson's grade in his final examination was the highest ever recorded up to that date.

The Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology states that Cas Corach, ( also spelled Cascorrach, Cas Corrach ), is a harper of Tuatha Dé Danann, who played for St. Patrick.

An extract states: Mr. William Townsend of Oxford, and Mr. William Smith of Warwick, were employed to be masons ; Mr. John Philipps to be the carpenter and joiner ; Mr. George Devall to be plumber ; Mr. Townsend junior to be stone carver ; Mr. Linel of Long-acre, London, to be carver in wood ; Mr. Artari, an Italian, to be their plaisterer in the fret work way ; Mr. Michael Rysbrack to be sculptor, to cut the Doctor's figure in marble ; and Mr. Blockley to be locksmith.

The Capuchin Order states that it will continue to exist at Greyfriars in Oxford and the premises will continue to operate as a friary ; the order will maintain responsibility for the parish.

St Antony's is the most international of the seven all-graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics, and history of particular parts of the world — Europe, Russia and the former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, South and South East Asia.

Cotton soon became the primary crop, as immigrants from the southern states, and in particular the area around Oxford and Pontotoc, Mississippi, came to the De Leon vicinity starting in 1890.

The notion that meringue was invented in the Swiss town of Meiringen and improved by an Italian chef named Gasparini in the 18th century is contested ; the Oxford English Dictionary states that the French word is of unknown origin.

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the term skiffle means " rent party ", indicating the informality of the occasion.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2004 ) entry for " Oggy " states: " Oggy, noun.

The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is " specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck ", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain " hanging ".

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word is a reduplication of boogie, which was used for rent parties as early as 1913.

The first official use of Kirby Muxloe was used in 1703 in the Oxford Dictionary of Placenames, which states that ' Muxloe ' is a family name.