Merriam-Webster, in a recent tweet, poked fun at the viral workplace trend gaining popularity among Gen Z employees: Micro-retirement.

The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words - with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 new entries ...

A mixed bag of clinical guidelines means lots of children are not getting the assistance they need for dyslexia, scientists ...

In recent years, Oxford Dictionary's word of the year has leaned into Gen Z and Gen Alpha internet slang, as the term "goblin mode" won Oxford's word of the year in 2022, while "rizz" won in 2023.

“Brain rot” is the 2024 Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, adding to a growing list of Internet-specific words chosen by dictionaries as words of the year.

The Oxford English Dictionary (aka the OED) runs an update to its repository four times every year. Like DLC for games, these quarterly patches can introduce new words, features, and definition ...

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 ...

Such volunteers — the Dictionary People of Ogilvie's title — were an invaluable source of labor for the Oxford team tasked with completing the ambitious dictionary project that began with ...

By Sarah Ogilvie. Knopf; 384 pages; $30. Chatto & Windus; £20 I n July 1915 an ailing James Murray (pictured), one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), defined one final word.

In April, Oxford Languages and the Hutchins Center shared 10 entries with The New York Times. Below are selected definitions, variant forms and etymologies. bussin (adjective and participle): 1.

Māori words in the Oxford English dictionary's March 2023 edition The oldest Māori word in this new update is 'whenua' meaning "land or piece of land belonging to a Māori person or native land ...