• according to the Oxford English Dictionary the longest English word with one syllable is squirrelled?
  
• Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beardism in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Facts on topics related to Oxford English Dictionary

Dictionary

• lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
• linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
• G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
• John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
• Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding?
• Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
• despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
• in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
• the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
• the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?

English language

• 16 of the 72 fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print did not write in English, and 16 of the 72 are women?
• 92% of students at West London's Villiers High School do not speak English as their first language?
• Andrew Carnegie (pictured) founded the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, with the aim of making English the world language by addressing its difficult spelling?
• botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
• children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops?
• Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation?
• Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
• Dutch rocker Wally Tax learned English by age 11 by working as a pimp for American sailors in the Port of Amsterdam?
• Edyta Górniak sang part of "To Nie Ja" in English at the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
• English once had a four-form yes and no system, employed by Shakespeare and others, instead of the two-form system that it has today?

Book

• Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome?
• the 16-volume series of theatre history books, The London Stage, by J. P. Wearing has been called "invaluable, thoroughly accurate" and "a proverbial mine of useful information"?
• the books and manuscripts in the Renaissance era Cotton library were categorized by their location in relation to busts of Caesars shelved alongside them?
  
• the DC comic book Batman: The Last Arkham drew on the influences of psychology and biology books such as "Superstition in the Common Pigeon"?
• the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?

A Dictionary of the English Language

• Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

• the phrase "Up to eleven", inspired by a scene from the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap, was entered into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 with the definition "up to maximum volume"?