Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track.

It will be fun to hunt with these," she said to him in her precise, almost Oxford English. "

His Oxford English bore the least, musical hint of another accent.

According to the 'Oxford English Dictionary' the first use of this sense was in 1530.

Like the diligent Oxford English graduate she is, she's analysed the business of style.

"English is being adapted as a working language, but it's not Oxford English," he said.

"Release them," Simon heard a voice say in distinctly Oxford English.

This man spoke in a pleasant Oxford English although his features showed him to be of oriental descent.

Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English.

Grant says his first port of call was traditional hard-copy dictionaries like the Oxford English.

"Excuse me, old man - signore, that is," the voice corrected itself in what sounded like Oxford English.

Good morning, Lieutenant Bastable," he said in perfect Oxford English. "

Ivan enquires in a blasé remake of Oxford English from the thirties.

• Authors should use Oxford English or Petit Robert spelling.

However, the earliest known 'recorded' use of the term found by the 'Oxford English Dictionary' occurred as late as 1988.

The Oxford English Dictionarystates, grumpily, “often mispronounced as cameellia”.

The Oxford English.

However, I've checked the Oxford English and it means "to assign an initial value to" - so there you are - none the wiser!

Similarly, The Oxford English Dictionary19 provides the following definition of "seagoing":

It isn't in any American dictionary, but I found it in the Oxford English.

Cited in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'.

Both the Oxford English and the Collins define meres and tarns as lakes.

Homer's ubiquitous catch phrase was famously added to the 'Oxford English Dictionary' in 2001, without the apostrophe.

He had the dark leathery looks of the Middle East, bul his voice was pure Oxford English. '

The word "transport" was adopted over the originally proposed "trade" which - in Oxford English - is synonym to Commerce).