The New Oxford American Dictionary Announces the Word of the Year: 'Carbon Neutral' NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- What do Al Gore, Rupert Murdoch, and the Rolling Stones have in common?

In the last 50 or so years, there has been a marked decline across the globe in the trust previously given to public ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday, October 15, ruled that a district court applied the wrong test ...

October is the month of lovers and lunatics, although there may not be much difference between the two.

Meanwhile, linguists including Weldon and Lanehart are currently working to bring an African American English dictionary to ...

But no storybook is written without a plot twist or two, and Missouri’s next two drives would provide the twist. Mizzou were ...

According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, it is a slang term often used in the expressions such as "I am in goblin mode" or "to go goblin mode".

Watching a goldfinch flit back and forth to a feeder is a good way to empty your mind. (Jim Williams) ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN - The current wave of anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States has been building for years. It started in the early 2000s, when US pol ...

Of course you do; they dominated our wardrobes in the late Noughties and early 2010s (‘jeggings’ entered the Oxford English ...

Ten Welsh words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it has been announced. The OED is updated quarterly with new words, senses and revisions to entries ...