Jargon, Shibboleths, and the Oxford Glossary

Oxford has its own language. Beyond the official terminology and Latin graces, there’s a whole network of jargon, insider codes, and shibboleths that mark who belongs and who doesn’t. This glossary collects the words, phrases, and nicknames that circulate in tutorials, halls, and college corridors: some academic, some playful, some plain English.

From the utterly proper to the rule-bending and defining expressions that make Oxford what it is today.

Christmas markets for visitors to Oxford

students in Radcliffe Square

Guy Fawkes’ lantern in the Ashmolean Museum, see the famous lamp that once lit one of England’s most dramatic plots. History and imagination meet,

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a delicious roast with trimmings

Cowley Road

Alternative Oxford

Lunch venues in Oxford for groups

Oxford students in sub-fusc

Radcliffe Camera

Oxford’s first purpose built science library

Shopping choices in Oxford

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Sheldonian Theatre

Calandar of special days in Oxford

I've noticed a lot this summer that US visitors struggle to catch 'Shows' not available across the pond but rarely have found out about the great theatre that stops in Oxford’s theatres.