Merriam-Webster's 12th edition Collegiate Dictionary adds over 5,000 new words, including "petrichor" and "ghost kitchen," ...

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

More than 5,000 new words have been added to the 12th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. They include "rizz," "dad bod," and "fanfic." ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and author-actor Suhel Seth are butting heads in an interesting pun-filled online exchange.

‘Poody’ comes from the Welsh ‘pwdu’, meaning to sulk, stemming originally from the English ‘pout’. It later became a noun, to ...

A fresh banter over language has started between senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and author-columnist Suhel Seth, after ...

In September 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary published the first of a new series of quarterly updates for World Englishes. They included new and revised entries for words from the Caribbean, East ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that ...

If you don't know what the words 'rark', 'lux' or 'hapu' mean, you'll be able to look them up in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford English Dictionary executive editor Danica ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that ...

Rark up, sweet as and mōrena have made it into the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Eleven words of New Zealand or te ...

Pronounced "SITH-your-ism," with a "th" sound as in "smith," it's the word for any whispery rustling sound, though it's ...