Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

One example of using Oxford's Word of the Year is, 'This post saying Kolkata has no good food is obvious rage bait' ...

It could be argued that the internet is the best possible medium for dictionaries. For one thing, there’s unlimited space for ...

Only reason you looked forward to coming back to work was to escape screaming kids and the 67 trend? Think again.

As 2025 data-collection ends, new lists begin. Several on-line dictionaries have released their “words of the year” and those ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Abeg' and 'nyash' are common mainstream words from Nigeria and have now been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues ...

It took about 70 years for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to be completed. Conceived in 1857, the project ...

Sorry, patriotic coffee lovers: calling your watered-down espresso a “Canadiano” might feel like you’re giving a middle ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with the inclusion of several Nigerian words and expressions in its ...