Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

Coleridge became the first Editor of the New English Dictionary (as the OED was first called), but ... that had originally come from languages out- side Europe – words from Arabic (sugar, sofa, ...

Many of these dictionaries and works on Urdu grammar used the word ‘Hindustani’ —with variant spellings, such as, ...

Sharjah University scientists design artificial intelligence tool to identify 19 different Arabic dialects spoken in 22 ...

These resources are aimed at first language English learners, encouraging them to actively explore, use and apply their core listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through individual, pair ...

In March, France's culture ministry announced that a new digital Francophone Dictionary would be launched ... countries such as Lebanon, where Arabic, English and French can often be heard ...

The compound meaning "to break the fast" took a while longer: The Oxford English Dictionary places the earliest written ... The word likely originates from the Arabic name qahwah, and the first person ...

Eckerd offers six languages that invite diversity and the exploration of other cultures. However, students don't take a language course for all the same reasons, and the amount of students ...

A BIBLIOGRAPHY is “a list of sources referred to in a particular work” and “a list of the books of a specific author or on a ...

Around the world, people of Jamaican heritage are starting to reconnect with the island's powerful language – and its complex ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

You can now raise a glass to 10 new Welsh words in the Oxford English Dictionary - including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da, which means good health and is said before having a drink ...