oxford english

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   the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious

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Questions about oxford english

What does oxford english mean?

oxford english means "the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious".

Is oxford english a common word?

oxford english is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.