The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

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A look at the Oxford English Dictionary 2025 "word of the year," viewed by a person old enough to actually own, sort of, a ...

Oxford English Dictionary selects ‘rage bait’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting rising internet slang and growing ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge that provides people with a new way to understand, use and ...

Hangry? Oxford English Dictionary understands. The word was one of more than 1,100 entries added to the dictionary in its most recent update, Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries, noted.

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...

Kingsley Ugwuanyi is affiliated with the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and also consults for the Oxford English Dictionary on their Nigerian English project Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when ...

Slang is almost always older than you think. English speakers have been calling stylish people “fly” since at least 1953. Though it’s everywhere now, the first known use of OMG goes back to 1917. And ...