Shashi Tharoor’s latest book misses a trick in not mining Gen Z and Alpha vocabulary as deeply as it deserves to be ...

Google is expanding Gmail’s summary cards, the AI-driven contextual snippets extracted for things like incoming packages.

Imagine a museum where you’re supposed to blabber, rather than maintain silence. Enter Planet Word, an interactive museum ...

Of the many attributes that one expects of academics in the practice of whatever subject they choose to study, curiosity is among the most important. In recent years in the UK, research that is ...

The recent additions come after the dictionary included cheffy, chef’s kiss, jollof rice, smashburger and stagiaire ...

In addition to street corn (noun, grilled corn on the cob that is coated with a creamy spread), additional nouns include ...

The word “academic” derives from Plato’s Academy, which he founded on ground that was named after the legendary Greek hero Academos, or Hekademos. And academic was someone who taught or studied at the ...

Our lexicographers monitor a huge range of sources to select which words and definitions to add,” Merriam-Webster's Peter ...

This German word is one that many people learn even before making an effort to study the language. But do you know why it’s ...

Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words is coming to the Canberra Theatre Centre stage and we're ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its vocabulary with the addition of several words from East African parlance ...