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

There’s a word in the zeitgeist that illustrates the point, in fact – one that has been threatening the laissez-faire ...

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

I was thrilled last Tuesday when Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, ...

At a time when many Americans are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments and opposing the Lost Cause mythology, “y’all,” with its Southern overtones, might make some people uncomfortable – a ...

“We are all riding the crest of the Korean wave and this can be felt not only in film, music, or fashion but also in our language, as evidenced by some of the words and phrases of Korean origin ...

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With the arrival of the First Fleet, the colonising British began displacing First Nations languages to install English as the official language of Australia. Almost immediately, the new inhabitants ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

The word ‘Aura’, with its Latin and Ancient Greek origins saying it as another word for wins, is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as a distinctive ambience or quality generated by a person ...

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