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Depending on how you use it, literally might mean one thing—or the complete opposite. Here's how to use the word without ...
Merrigong Theatre Company presents Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, at the ...
The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...
Hi everyone! As I write this, it is currently May Morning here in Oxford, the date of a centuries-old tradition dedicated to ...
During a Monday press conference, President Donald Trump claimed he invented a word that has been in use since the 1580s.
tracing the journey of Bengali words across centuries, capturing the language’s literary and archival heritage. “We target to complete the project by February 2028, which coincidentally will also be ...
It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...
The Oxford Dictionary defines it as - a type of Indian tea made by boiling tea leaves with milk, sugar, and spices. Jugaad means a work-around or a hack to solve a problem. It's more than just a word ...
Asian English just scored a major win – 23 words from across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines have officially entered the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). From everyday slang to iconic ...
New words from around the world have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for the first time as its creators say their usage has become so commonplace in the language. These are several ...
The whole word is going goblin mode, it seems. The good folks over at Oxford, the published behind the Oxford English Dictionary, announced that "goblin mode" was 2022's Word of the Year.
Sometimes, you repeatedly mention words that aren’t a part of Word’s dictionary or write a line of code where the objects aren’t identified as legitimate English words. Today, we will show ...