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 ...

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

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Words commonly used in association with video games and the name of a Dutch sweet treat are among the terms that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The new additions come as part of the ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

Spoiler, granularity and wasabi are among the new foreign terms chosen by Spanish academics to join the new words in the ...

Spelling provided a peek at the family's Christmas traditions! Tori Spelling/ Instagram Tori Spelling and her four older children work together to maintain the Christmas magic for her youngest son ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee has come under scrutiny for the spelling change. The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US has stirred controversy after it included the feminist spelling of "womyn ...

The word comes from the post-classical Latin ... The other expressions of Welsh origin added to the Oxford English Dictionary are twp, an adjective describing someone stupid or idiotic, cawl ...