Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

The Oxford University Press (OUP) on Friday announced the launch of a trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary to make ...

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Partly inspired by their immigrant parents, two New Jersey high school seniors founded Words Beyond Worlds, a free English as ...

Artificial intelligence might have wide-ranging effects on the evolution of the English language and, in turn, on education, ...

The English language is a constant delight, and we made two exciting lexical discoveries only recently. First, “spats”, a ...

An Oxford Languages dictionary defines speculation as "the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence." ...

All languages borrow words from neighboring languages, and if a language has great geographical spread, as English has, it ...

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Reproductive rights measures are on the ballots in 10 states after heated debates over how to describe their impact on ...

If Walt Whitman helped take American poetry to new heights, the former president’s free-verse stylings have brought it back down to earth.