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The OED has always included words from across the English-speaking world.
What’s changed—drastically—since the first edition is the size and breadth of the
English-speaking population. The British Council estimates 1.75 billion people
worldwide can speak English to what it calls ‘some useful degree’.
For the past few years we have been undertaking a series of projects to improve our
coverage of words and senses from those parts of the world in which English is used
most prolifically and distinctively. In each of these projects we have formed
partnerships with external experts from or in the region. Increasingly,
terms arising in these varieties will spread internationally.
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The Varieties of English main page contains the following
information:
Australian English
Canadian English
Caribbean English
Hong Kong English
Indian English
Irish English
Malaysian English
New Zealand English
Philippine English
South African English
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