Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

Five years after the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 29 Nigerian loanwords, 20 more terms from Nigeria and Ghana have ...

At the end of 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year: brain rot. The first recorded use of the ...

Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

While he very much believed in his own epigram that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) traces its roots back to 1478, and is the world’s biggest university publisher. It produces ...

Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary, OED listed 22 Nigerian into its vocabulary Kingsley Ugwuanyi, OED consultant who ...

The new words depict an average Nigerian's daily life, as well as the strong street mannerisms and Pidgin English ...

National Thesaurus Day, on January 18th, honors Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, who was born on this day ...

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It is the new year, and the birth of a new generation! 2025 sees the start of Generation Beta, the cohort comprising individuals born between 2025 and 2039. Generations are typically defined as ...

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