The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 18 new words related to gender identity and the LGBTQ community in 2022, including the terms gender-affirming, brotherboy and pangender, according to a ...

Oxford English Dictionary has added new Nigerian English words, celebrating the country's culture and creativity. Dr. Kingsley Ugwuanyi highlighted this milestone.

After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced a Generation Alpha slang term is its 2024 word of the year, "brain rot.". Here's an ...

Topping from the bottom is now in the Oxford English Dictionary? Anything is possible in 2023. Sarah Prager December 26, 2022, 4:00 pm EST ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added a total of 18 new LGBTQ-related words in 2022 — an effort to acknowledge the diverse communities of LGBTQ people around the world, their shared and ...

Fact Check. Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word “twerk” to its collection.The addition came after Miley Cyrus’ widely discussed ...

An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) ...

The Dictionary had started out with three men, Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–86), the Dean of Westminster Abbey, along with Herbert Coleridge (1830–61) and Frederick Furnivall (1825–1910 ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used. A new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

Precise definitions for “bussin,” “chitterlings” and “cakewalk” will be distributed to the world in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.