Oxford’s Next Level: Creating a Black English Dictionary

Are you familiar with African American Vernacular English? Maybe not but it’s likely you use words derived from this every day. Read on to learn more.

A new research project detailing the words and phrases collectively known as African American Vernacular English (AAVE), including spelling, definitions and a historical repository that spotlights the people who created the language, will be produced by Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and the Oxford English Dictionary and published by Oxford […]