That project, which is due for publication around 2028, is headed by Toronto editor John Chew, and will include the UBC lab’s ...

If ever a film seemed at first like a long shot for the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, it's "This Is Spinal Tap." A "mockumentary" before the term existed, it was a comedy show skit that ...

The dictionary of uniquely Canadian terms has been updated with 137 new words and phrases, from “elbows up” to “maplewashing.

All your favourite Canadianisms-and 137 new ones-just got easier to find, right in time for Canada Day.The UBC editors of the Dictionary of ...

Alongside origin (Type 1) and frequency (Type 5), some phrases qualify by dint of preservation (Type 2). KERFUFFLE, for ...

New words from around the world have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for the first time as its creators say their usage has become so commonplace in the language. These are ...

“Class”, a phrase in Ireland that means something is great, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary along with a number of other Hiberno-Irish words and phrases.

It's small. It's flat. It's black. And according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, its numbers are shrinking. Welcome to the world of the hyphen. Having been around since at least the birth of ...

In 2004, the term "bootylicious" - made popular by Destiny's Child hit of the same name, co-written by Beyonce - was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

The first edition of the dictionary was funded by Oxford University Press in the 1870s and was an enormous undertaking. In fact, it took 10 years to get from the start of the letter A to 'ant'.