Oxford University Press South Africa (OUPSA) has announced the first locally developed school resource to combine a dictionary and thesaurus in a single volume. More importantly, it’s designed for the ...

The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago. By Pippa Bailey and Emma Haslett The New Statesman’s Pippa Bailey has long had a professional as well as a ...

Saying that a specific person “coined” a new word is often a fairly tricky fact to verify, not least because someone’s work containing the earliest written record of a word doesn’t necessarily mean ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Given the limited ...

Whether it’s a judicious use of the word “yinz” or the flattening of vowels in words like “out” or “down,” Pitts­burghers have a distinctive way of speaking — but for us, it’s totally natural. “That’s ...

The online dictionary contains over 30,000 Kadazan entries and nearly 29,000 Malay translations.

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As a society, we like to swear. Swear words have a strange power over us. It starts when we are young, when they are deliciously taboo. Then, as we age, our dependence on swear words increases to the ...