Matthew Hooton wrote in the NZ Herald last week that “There’s no doubt that both Māori and Pākehā in 1840 understood tino rangatiratanga to be a bigger deal than kāwanatanga”.1 However whilst this is ...

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

You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess ... as long as ...

Hazrat Shah Waliullah Library in Old Delhi is running out of space and funds. Other Urdu libraries in the city are in ...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines companionship as “the enjoyment of spending time with other people.” There are so many ways ...

Wool - If you are labelled a wool, you are not considered a true Scouser. The dictionary says this one is an abbreviated form ...

Vaccine skeptics have said changes were introduced to "accommodate" the shortcomings of the COVID-19 vaccines.

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 ...

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

Louise Minchin answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him ...

Can I suggest you turn the volume up on your “Bluetooth-enabled hearing device” Paul, and select “Profanity Mode” on your AI-enabled translation dictionary (if it has that function outside US English) ...

We say the word multiple times a day, but what does the "o" in "o'clock" stand for? Two linguists took the time to explain ...