I’m sometimes a bit slow on the uptake. Michael Berkeley has been presenting his excellent Private Passions programme on ...

What are we really reading when we read a doctor’s prose? Perhaps, someone who has seen too much. Someone whose vocabulary ...

MOVIE star Mark Wahlberg recently told three Scottish brothers that their rowing heroics deserve to be turned into a ...

Manchester City legend Colin Bell is one of 238 people to be added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) as ...

Harry is a lexicographer helping to create the first Oxford English Dictionary while Esme assists her ‘Da’ in the Scriptorium (Scrippy), a converted shed in the garden of Sir James Murray’s house, the ...

Columnist's note: Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much attention, locally and globally, as "gigil" in the ...

Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — Gigil The Oxford English Dictionary has included a list of ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore ...

The Oxford English Dictionary continues to update with the addition of words that reflect the dynamic and diverse nature of the English language. (Image/Freepik) Have you ever been left speechless ...

New words from around the world have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED ... open image in gallery James Maguire, Saoirse Monica-Jackson, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Nicola Coughlan ...

Spice bag', 'ludraman' and 'class' are among the Irish English words that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its ... of its use in English in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize ...