British Sanskritist, Prof M. Monier Williams, defines ‘Kal’ (to rhyme with ‘all’) as “black, of a dark colour…name of Siva, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has included the word "lah into its lexicon, a significant nod to the uniqueness of Malaysian English. According to the OED, this colloquial particle is used as an ...

The term ball peen hammer first saw print in 1874, when a mechanic’s dictionary referred to it as a “metal worker’s hammer ...

For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the ...

Vijayawada: The state government has undertaken an extensive exercise of distributing student kits called ‘Vidyarthi Mitra ...

Average Australians have triple the income and more leisure time than in 1960. Now, greater productivity can accelerate such ...

The actual name of the machine is 'Backhoe Loader', but over time, the brand name JCB became so common that it is now used ...

Government distributes 35.94 lakh school kits worth ₹953.71 crore, focusing on education over politics, saving ₹63.80 crore.

Clatterbridge Pharmacy (trading as PharmaC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation ...

We organise dictionary quizzes across the country. We are also among the first publishers to bring out a Shakespeare dictionary,” said Priyadarshini Bhattacharyya, associate director, marketing, Oxfor ...

Reader’s Digest spoke to Michael Adams, a professor of English and linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, to learn ...

Hand someone a ten-dollar bill, and most people will say you handed them ten bucks. It sounds casual, quick, and natural. Everyone says it. Gas is four bucks a gallon. Burgers go for six bucks. Movie ...