Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are ...

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 ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region. The ...

Justice Antonin Scalia called on using old-time language on Thursday to express his contempt for the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of Obamacare. He called the majority opinion "jiggery pokery" and ...

Unprecedented times beget unprecedented updates to the English language. That’s the major takeaway from the Oxford University Press — the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) — in its ...

Great news, everyone! The Oxford English Dictionary has finally — finally — added a verb form to its definition of “clatfart.” That’s right. The noun we all love, meaning “gossip,” is now also a verb ...

The English language, like all of us, has had to adapt rapidly and repeatedly this year. Our team of expert lexicographers have captured and analyzed this lexical data every step of the way. As our ...

Puff on this: Oxford Dictionaries just crowned “vape” the Word of the Year! There was some stiff competition for what would take the top spot, but 2014 belonged to the verb used to describe inhaling ...

If you're looking for a way to describe your newfound love for K-dramas after watching Squid Game, you might say you're riding the Korean wave. The South Korean survival drama has exposed millions to ...

Balisaur, boviander, calabazilla — if you’ve never heard of those words, you can blame Robert Burchfield, a former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, who, according to a new book by the linguist ...

The year 2020 has been so unprecedented that a single word can’t be used to sum it up, officials with Oxford English Dictionary announced Monday. In lieu of its usual word of the year announcement, ...