The IsiXhosa Language: development highlights

by Oxford | Sep 17, 2014 | Dictionaries

To celebrate the launch of our new Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: isiXhosa and English, here are the highlights of the development of the language.

Commonly Confused Words

by Oxford | Sep 12, 2014 | Higher Education

There are a lot of words out there. In fact there are at least a quarter of a million distinct English words -and when you add on inflections, local vocabularies and words that are now obsolete, there are probably closer to three quarters of a million. So it’s not...

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