The Oxford English Dictionary can never let slang just be slang. In the past, it's tried to bond with its fellow kids with words such as hot mess, YOLO, and manspreading much to all of our eye-rolling ...

It isn’t easy being a language without a country. Unlike English, Hebrew and hundreds of other languages that have governments to protect them and nurture their growth, Yiddish has, for the most part, ...

Two Tennessee Republicans have proposed a bill requiring all driver's license tests to be administered in English only. The bill would also ban the use of translation dictionaries, electronic devices, ...

Demand for paper versions of the Oxford English Dictionary has waned as online use has soared. LONDON - It's been in print more than a century, but in the future the Oxford English Dictionary - the ...

Stories about print publications switching to an all-digital format are nothing new, but what about the dictionary? The publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary is reportedly mulling a switch to an ...