Tired of being policed by ‘Grammar Nazis’? Are you sure you're speaking English correctly? This double-edged piece argues for ...

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

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

There are four different difficulty levels in each game -- each group of four fits in one. Yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue, and the hardest is purple, smugly labeled "tricky" by the NYT ...

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 ...

At a time when many Americans are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments and opposing the Lost Cause mythology, ...

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

Happy New Year, Scrolling in the Deepers! It’s 2025, which marks the official start of Generation Beta, ushering in the ...

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 ...