In 2024, internet slang terms like "boop" (a gentle poke to someone's head or nose) and "chef's kiss" (an expression or ...

Like any self-respecting four-letter word, "nice" has many connotations. Centuries ago, "nice" meant someone was ignorant; ...

Which word has the most definitions in the English language? Here's a hint: the word is only three letters long, can be a ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

Academics and government officials worked with indigenous people to release the Dictionary of Nanshih Amis Language (南勢阿美辭典) on Saturday last week, a four-decade work by Catholic priest Father Kucia ...

“The em dash can also usurp the semicolon’s glory — for it shows more than equality! The em dash has its own veritable inflection — its own tempo! One can use it profusely to show excitement and ...

“We target to complete the project by February 2028, which coincidentally will also be the centenary of the Oxford English Dictionary that used to come in multiple volumes but now, of course, is ...

THE origin of “Webster” dates from a notable period in the history of works of reference, the second half of the eighteenth century. Noah Webster, a teacher in the United States, entered upon ...

the Oxford English Dictionary explained: “Often, when we talk about untranslatable words, what we are actually talking about are words that have been lexicalized in one language but not in ...

Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, was a mammoth work of solo scholarship, nine years in the making, and sweated out in a state of self-flagellating ...