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

Shashi Tharoor’s latest book misses a trick in not mining Gen Z and Alpha vocabulary as deeply as it deserves to be ...

Making a statement on the events at Cook’s trial, George Harding, one of Bingham Baring’s men, said that Cook’s sledge-hammer fell on the brim of Baring’s hat and then landed on his “collar” and ...

Speaking about how Britons can go about learning French, the expert claimed it's best to "just get stuck in". Janine ...

The Lord of the Rings, an epic tale of good and evil, was published in 1954, when ‘good’ as a noun was used 0.00416% of the time – a rate almost twice that of 2022. Mr. Tolkien’s worldview was very ...

Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words is coming to the Canberra Theatre Centre stage and we're ...

Merriam-Webster just added over 200 words to its dictionary, and several of them ... these give us a very thorough view of the English language.” Every addition has demonstrated widespread ...

You can now raise a glass to 10 new Welsh words in the Oxford English Dictionary - including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da, which means good health and is said before having a drink ...

Merriam-Webster has officially added the term “jam band” to its prestigious dictionary, cementing the genre’s place in the ...

When Daniel Mercier treats himself to a nice dinner while his wife and children are out of town, he finds himself sat next to ...

Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a ...

There are a number of extremely talented English teenagers in football right now, and the very best of the best have been ...