the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary. Defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material – now ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said its name can be pronounced with either an “aitch” or a “haitch” because it respects ...

It puts the tax body at odds with the Cambridge Dictionary, whose online pronunciation guide advises that the word HMRC ...

Some friends and I, with too much time on our hands, have long been collecting examples of such expressions, which we call ...

Mistletoe took its name from the Old English for 'poop twig', thanks to the plant's seeds being propagated by the droppings ...

Discover how ancient languages, pagan traditions, and Christian influences shaped the names Yule, Noel, and Christmas into ...

I marvel at the new ways we find to describe a thing, name a feeling, or convey something new about our changing world,’ he says.

Oxford defines brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the ...

Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year. Each are ...

Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year. Each are depressingly apt reflections of the past 12 months. Roméo Dallaire’s latest book “The ...

There’s a scene in the popular recent New Zealand series After the Party that’s so shocking, it makes you rewind and check ...

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