Read more trending news Merriam-Webster has updated the hard copy of its collegiate dictionary, adding 5,000 new words to the ...

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Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

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A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

The first dictionaries of the country's myriad ethnic languages without native written forms are rolling off the presses. As the foundations of the Middle Kingdom's Tower of Babel weaken, the ...

Gija elder Shirley Purdie likes the naughty words in her ancient language. She admits they can be used to keep misbehaving children in line. ''Funny sort of words … a bit sweary … that say, 'you're no ...

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...