Oxford University Press has announced its 2024 Word of the Year contenders, including demure, brain rot, lore, dynamic pricing, slop and romantasy.

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 ...

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even ...

Ten new Welsh words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, including the phrase for cheers. The BBC's Harriet Morgan looks at some of the new words and their pronunciation. They also ...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford ... the 29 new entries as "either borrowings from Nigerian languages or unique Nigerian coinages". The publishers say its dictionary ...

Ten new Welsh terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da - which means good health and is said before having a drink - is included as part ...

"The ick" and "boop" are among more than 3,200 new words and phrases added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. The latest ...

is now officially in the Oxford ... English language and literature at the Soochow University in Taiwan, was the first one to spot the “add oil!” in the online edition of the dictionary.

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader ... In 1933, the writer James Norman Hall had a bone to pick with the concise nature of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. It defined boredom as “being ...

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