YouTube was added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in 2013. It is defined as ‘a popular video-sharing website on which ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

Several bills introduced this legislative session attempt to remedy the problem, including HB 1258, which would require ...

Five years after the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 29 Nigerian loanwords, 20 more terms from Nigeria and Ghana have ...

At the end of 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year: brain rot. The first recorded use of the ...

Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary, OED listed 22 Nigerian into its vocabulary Kingsley Ugwuanyi, OED consultant who ...

The new words depict an average Nigerian's daily life, as well as the strong street mannerisms and Pidgin English ...

They're musicians, maybe. Or possibly, imaginary creatures best lured from a small boat on calm waters. Or maybe they're ...

National Thesaurus Day, on January 18th, honors Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, who was born on this day ...

Here I think wonder means “awe.” That is different from “questioning.” But I am not a dictionary. I pull my Compact Oxford ...

Canadian mining giant Barrick halted its operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks worth $245 million. What's the story behind the Nigerian words added to the Oxford English ...