Earlier this month, the Oxford English Dictionary declared “brain rot” as its word of the year, an annual accolade that doesn ...

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 ...

For almost 250 years the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has been a widely used resource to define, interpret and properly use the written and spoken words in our society.

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.

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 ...

Most contemporary arguments about free will are between thinkers who believe free will is compatible with determinism and ...

For the past six months, the 25-year-old had poured himself into what he calls the most comprehensive Singlish Dictionary ...