Dr William Minor was one of the most prolific contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary. Unknown to many, he was also ...

The Oxford English Dictionary's addition of Korean words reflects the global rise of Korean culture.

When Valentina Geri, lecturer in Italian studies, assigned Jhumpa Lahiri’s memoir, In Other Words, to the students enrolled ...

Recently, the good folks at America’s leading dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, updated their pages by adding over 1,000 new words. This is important business since the last update took ...

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Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word "deepfake" into Korean. A senior researcher ...

Insurance” must rank as one of the most un-rock’n’roll words in the dictionary, alongside “annuity” and “podiatry”. But as an ...

With an encyclopedic memory, Nigel Richards conquered the game in English before moving on to French and Spanish. Just don’t ...

This January, the Prime Minister, Sir Kier Starmer, led on the idea of AI-driven growth to boost the UK economy. The ...

SYDNEY THOMAS was labelled “unproportionately hot” as awestruck fans tested the dictionary with Scrabble-friendly ...

A letter in the Minneapolis newspaper asked if Dictionary.com could choose “false equivalency” as its 2020 word of the year. Finally, words that make clear to me what happens when ...

Despite being jobless during the decade-long Great Depression that ravaged the industrialised West, American architect, Alfred Mosher Butts, never turned his mind into the devil’s workshop nor allowed ...