Maybe it's one of the 690 new words and phrases Merriam-Webster just added to its dictionary—like beast mode for the workout ...

Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using ...

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You know the type. But even so, we were stumped when it came to a list of some of the most unusual words in the English dictionary. Compiled by the folks at Raconteur, the list includes nouns ...

Picture a child about to try A stunt fraught with danger. He turns to his panicked mother, saying “Don’t worry, Mom, I won’t get hurt.” And Mother replies, “Famous last words!” Odd how we humans Often ...

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But, Cameron explains, this is difficult to rectify because of the two words’ unequal linguistic histories. The entry for ‘man’ in the Oxford Dictionary is much longer and more detailed than ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo ...

Last year's word of the year for the Oxford Dictionary was vax, while words related to vaccines spiked in frequency in 2021 because of Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all ...