All the misunderstandings and miscommunications had us thinking: how many everyday words do Americans and Brits use ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of the “beautiful” English of Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai has drawn confusion in ...

Critics accused Trump of being ignorant and offensive after he appeared surprised to hear the President of Liberia speak ...

Trump's remarks came during a meeting with the leaders of several African nations. Many people who live in Liberia are ...

Third edition includes popular homegrown Canadian slang such as bunny hug and depanneur, along with plenty of surprises ...

Noah Webster, creator of "An American Dictionary of the English Language" (1828) led the charge. It was Webster who removed ...

Here’s the thing about going somewhere completely different for a summer vacation: Sometimes you bump into things that are completely different. And sometimes they bump into you with cartoon-moose ...

Almost a whole page of the Dictionary of American Regional English is dedicated to "wampus," a Southern term for a variety of real creatures, such as a wild horse, and imagined ones, such as swamp ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

There were two naming conventions for airlines, but this is little more than marketing, and there are even more names today.

“Brain rot” is the official Word of the Year for 2024, according to the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher, Oxford University Press. Here’s how that august chronicler of English defines ...

Each year, the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update the prestigious tome with new words. In 2022, over 650 new words were added, ranging from slang and tech terms to pop ...