Laurie Knox has provided a list of seven common words in the English language you may not have realised are acronyms of terms ...

The word 'Aura', with its Latin and Ancient Greek origins saying it as another word for wins, is described in the Oxford Eng ...

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

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Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

Whether you’re a full-blown bibliophile or someone who simply enjoys a good page-turner, chances are you’ve come across The ...

This is from a YouGov survey from just a few years ago: nearly half of Americans say they believe in ghosts, and more than one-third say they have personally felt the presence of a ghost.

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

The main mistake made with Wychavon, the district council covering south eastern Worcestershire, is in the second part of the word. Like the river which flows through the county, avon is pronounced ...

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 ...

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