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According to the Collins English Dictionary, dynamic pricing is the practice of offering goods at a variable price depending ...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines an ambassador as “an accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country." Official or not, I’ve been following the ...
US president Donald Trump’s bizarre relationship with the English language is continuing to make headlines at the moment, after he asked the President of Liberia - a country where English is its ...
Noah Webster, creator of "An American Dictionary of the English Language" (1828) led the charge. It was Webster who removed ...
A Victoria-born word is among the latest additions to A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Created in 1967, ...
This years yatra, which started on June 27, will culminate on July 5.Along with juggernaut, Indian languages have embellished English with many other words such as shampoo, mulligatawny soup, ...
IN THE rich tapestry of Malaysian English, the word "lah" stands out as a quintessential expression.
The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.
A Dutch man's post about English phrases he learned from his Indian wife has gone viral and left social media users chuckling.
Eleven Filipino words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its March 2025 update. Eight of the words were added as new entries.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls them “untranslatable words” – those that do not have English equivalents – that have been imported into the English language by speakers to fill a ...