the "oxford word gap" is used to describe the word gap found between races and socioeconomic classes in the united kingdom. the report study "why closing the word gap matters: oxford language report" details out statistics collected in primary and secondary schools in the united kingdom, along the same ideas as the american word gap idea, citing "hart and risley (2003)" in the report. it was published in 2018, so all of its implications are yet to be seen.