The prime minister assures us the budget will strive for equity, resilience and social cohesion. Something’s lost in the ...

That and getting rid of the “U” the British people insist on putting into words where it has no business. “Favour.” ...

Journalist Paige McClanahan writes about how tourism shapes societies and individuals, and about the need to redefine the ...

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...

From the first English dictionary in 1604 to today’s online platforms, dictionaries have shifted from telling us how to speak to reflecting how we actually do. They now record slang, cultural shifts, ...

America declared independence from British rule in 1776, so why are we still speaking “English” in 2026? As the nation’s ...

CBSE's 3-Language Formula: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will make a third language compulsory from Class 6 starting the 2026-27 academic session, with the subject set to be included ...

SINGAPORE – “We’ve been together for agak-agak four years, but I’m still waiting for him to ask me to BTO, really jialat.” Reading the above sentence and deciphering its meaning should be a piece of ...

Saying that a specific person “coined” a new word is often a fairly tricky fact to verify, not least because someone’s work containing the earliest written record of a word doesn’t necessarily mean ...

Oxford University Press South Africa (OUPSA) has announced the first locally developed school resource to combine a dictionary and thesaurus in a single volume. More importantly, it’s designed for the ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...