Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...

A battle for the survival of the quiz show fittest as Edinburgh take on Darwin College, Cambridge for a place in the quarter-finals of ...

Now we come to, quite possibly, the simplest argument that I’ve encountered against learning this amazing language and ...

A Man of Parts and Learning” is the first winner of this year’s Sidney Awards, which I created in honor of philosopher and ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said its name can be pronounced using “aitch” or “haitch” to respect diversity and different ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

Words don’t stop coming and dictionaries continue to add hundreds of newfangled words to their pages and online databases every ...

The choices, and the sometimes stark differences between them, provide a glimpse into how different regions’ experienced the ...

Francis Williams was almost certainly the most famous Black man in the English-speaking world. He was a scholar, a scientist and a gentleman, who was said to have been educated at Cambridge but ...

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