A folk hero, the Oxford English Dictionary tells us, is simply “someone who is admired by the ordinary people of a country or ...

A quarter century since we learned about ‘carbon footprints’, researchers say it’s time to change the conversation. View on ...

Especially with texting being such a staple in today’s communication, abbreviations, contractions, and other words that just don’t sound as if they possibly could be considered legitimate have become ...

That the Labour backbench is not a drawer filled with especially sharp knives is a fact becoming clearer by the day. There’s ...

But there are words you almost certainly won’t have heard of. These are the words in what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls ‘Band 1’, and they are so rare they are unlikely to ever ...

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Iechyd da or "good health", said as cheers before a drink is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. The free weekly sessions are held to encourage people to access the language, Culture Vannin says.

Oxford University Press has announced their shortlist for this year's Word of the Year and invited the public to vote for the winner.

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even ...

The meaning given to rag-bag legislation by the Supreme Court, and later followed by several High Courts, is conceptually ...

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The judge ruled that while Rob Ogden’s words were offensive, his employers did not follow reasonably fair disciplinary ...