There are about a million words in the English language, but do you know the longest word in English? You may think it’s ...

Be it asweddumized fields or mallung in a rice and curry meal, kiribath for a special occasion, sizzling kottu, scrumptious watalappam or a happening baila song – each one of these examples provides a ...

It’s the usual mixture of mayhem with real-life people (now too dead to defend themselves) and some fictional types and, at the heart of it all, amateur sleuth and plucky Canadian Savoy press officer ...

Chips and fries are just the beginning of how different American and British food names really are American vs. British food names Do you think the differences between Americans and Brits are limited ...

Outside of those 171,476 weird, wonderful words, you have idioms, which are phrases that can’t be fully understood based on ...

‘Untranslatable’ Irish, Filipino and Malaysian words added to Oxford English Dictionary Several world foods including otak-otak, lumpia and spice bag make the list ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.

In 2008, the New Oxford American Dictionary selected hypermiling, or driving to maximize fuel efficiency. Permacrisis–an ongoing emergency–got the nod from the Collins Dictionary editors in 2022.

For example, this year the editors of the Oxford dictionaries allowed the public to cast votes for their favorite from a short list of candidates. Brain rot emerged victorious.

In 2005, for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary chose “podcast” – right before the programming format exploded in popularity. More commonly, the celebrated neologisms don’t age well.

In 2005, for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary chose “ podcast ” – right before the programming format exploded in popularity. More commonly, the celebrated neologisms don’t age ...

For example, this year the editors of the Oxford dictionaries allowed the public to cast votes for their favorite from a short list of candidates. Brain rot emerged victorious.