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English evolves at warp speed now, boosted by social media’s endless prose, seeing an archive like Collins barely finding ...
Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...
Shoogly, skooshy, beamer and bummer are among 13 new entries added by editors at the OED.
The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words - with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 new entries. There is also a listing for Scotland's shoogly subway trains ...
Additionally, a number of breakfast foods have also been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, including one that gets two inclusions. Lorne sausage, square sausage, morning roll, and tattie ...
Sri Lanka’s rich culinary and cultural heritage has received global recognition as several locally popular words have been officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its June ...
That project, which is due for publication around 2028, is headed by Toronto editor John Chew, and will include the UBC lab’s ...
The Oxford English Dictionary has announced that no less than 13 Scottish words have been added to this year's edition. And ...
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has officially added several popular Sri Lankan words, including Kottu Roti and Kiribath, in its latest update, according to a statement issued by Oxford University ...
Provinces, starting with Quebec, were trying to restrict such “imports.” Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher wisely warned ...
The dictionary of uniquely Canadian terms has been updated with 137 new words and phrases, from “elbows up” to “maplewashing.