Oxford University Press SA has launched The Brand-New Second Edition of the Oxford First Bilingual Dictionary, available in English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana and ...

Among its other additions are 'bitcoin,' 'cake pop' and 'space tourism.' Aug. 28, 2013— -- Dictionaries can have personalities too. The Oxford English Dictionary, which only recently accepted ...

TOKYO -- Reflecting the growing popularity of Japanese food worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary in its March revision added 23 Japanese food and culture-related words.

Careful about your language? Come on, don’t be “high blood.” It’s now perfectly correct English to say that a “presidentiable” will stamp out “carnap” and “salvage” incidents, or that your “barkada” ...

Welcome to the latest instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s Football Cliches podcast, a parallel mission into the heart of the tiny things in football you never thought ...

A year ago, if you got a "V" and an "X" in a word game you might have stared at your letters with a vacant expression. Previous words of the year include chav, selfie, vape and an emoji Vax dates back ...

"Coronavirus" Was One Of The Most Frequently Used Nouns In English By April: Oxford Languages Lockdown, WFH (work from home), support bubbles, keyworkers, furlough and circuit-breaker are just some of ...

Number of words in the English language: 500,000 according to the number of words in the Oxford English Dictionary. There are supposedly another 500,000 uncataloged technical and scientific terms. By ...