The mystery of Diedrich Knickerbocker’s disappearance played out over several issues of the Post that autumn, culminating in the publication of a book that put a young Washington Irving on the ...

It was from this that the term “fall” – or, more fully, “fall of the leaf” – started to take hold in English, with writers such as Roger Ascham describing the year as being split into ‘‘Spring tyme, ...

CBSE English Language and Literature Syllabus for ... and other important information. Download the PDF here. 3. The courses at the secondary level seek to cement high professional grasp of ...

The term "waka jumper" has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The colloquial phrase, which is used almost exclusively in New Zealand politics, is among several new words the dictionary has ...

The Oxford English Dictionary considers inclusion of word in its pages after gathering independent examples from a good variety of sources, and evidence that the word has been in use for a reasonable ...

OXFORD Languages has announced its latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), introducing several Guyanese English words that reflect the country’s rich cultural and linguistic heritage.

Oxford has lots of historic pubs and here is a selection which can claim to be among the oldest. The Mitre in High Street was one of Oxford’s most historic pubs until it shut in 2019 for a major ...

The Labour mayor wants to reboot plans that would make the “nation’s most famous high street” traffic-free, starting with the stretch between Oxford Circus and Selfridges. His vision is for ...

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well. I'm Feifei.

The universities of Oxford and Cambridge should scrap interviews and instead pick applicants from a lottery of top-performing students, professors have argued. In a book called Born to Rule ...

Waterstones is returning to Oxford Street eight years after it closed its last remaining store on the iconic central London shopping strip. A new Waterstones bookshop will open within the John ...