16:54, Thu, Jan 30, 2025 Updated: 16:59, Thu, Jan 30, 2025 The saying, 'Every day is a school day' couldn't be more true when it comes to the vast and complex English language. With approximately ...

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 ...

I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...

“The lexicon of a foreign language is like a map of a country you’ve never been to,” says psychologist Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. While travelers tend to think that seeing ...

Wayne State University in Detroit presents 10 words to revive into everyday usage, "once again celebrating the joy and ...

Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has added eight words drawn from South Korean culture in its latest quarterly update, Oxford ...