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 ...

Follow live coverage as Oxford United face Blackburn Rovers in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second ...

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

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" retrospectives—the past year's best movies, best albums, best books—which set the ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has enriched its collection with 20 Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update. Among the newly added entries are widely used terms such as “japa ...

The Oxford English Dictionary just got a K-culture upgrade. In its December 2024 update, the dictionary added seven Korean words — "dalgona," "hyung," "noraebang," "maknae," "jjigae ...