The latest OED update shows how quickly language changes as new cultures, online trends and everyday expressions enter global ...

Is it a felony of lexicographic fecklessness or merely a misdemeanor of misunderstood motives? Word guardians have been up in arms during the past week over claims in a new book about the Oxford ...

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious ...

Every dictionary has its word of the year now, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reigns supreme among categorisations ...

A look at the Oxford English Dictionary 2025 "word of the year," viewed by a person old enough to actually own, sort of, a ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

Rastell’s law dictionary was the first English language dictionary of any type, with its alphabetical arrangement of terms and their definitions. First published in Anglo-Norman French around 1523 as ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

And for those thinking Oxford is rage baiting them by declaring two words to be the word of the year, the publisher explained ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Hangry is defined as "bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger." — -- Anyone who has ever felt so hungry to the point of getting angry can finally associate that feeling with an official ...