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 ...

In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture ...

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

And while there is no Reaganesque orator in this bipartisan word-salad toss-off, you don’t need the man to remember his wisdom. The job of a party leader is to lead, with a message that connects ...

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 ...

OXFORD Languages has announced its latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), introducing several Guyanese English words that reflect the country’s rich cultural and linguistic heritage.

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well. I'm Feifei.

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites ...

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

Last year's word of the year for the Oxford Dictionary was vax, while words related to vaccines spiked in frequency in 2021 because of Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all ...