There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

If you like sending emoji in text messages to your partner, it could be worth dialling back on the 'crying laughing' face.

Dele Jegede is a painter, art historian, cartoonist, curator, art critic, art administrator and teacher. Born April 19, 1945 ...

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it ...

Catchphrases are common in many TV shows—from Joey asking “How you doin’?” in Friends to McGarrett’s “Book ’em, Danno” in Hawaii Five-O. Some catchphrases have even become so popular that they’ve ...

Columnist's note: Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much attention, locally and globally, as "gigil" in the ...

The uniquely Irish culinary delicacy known as the “spice bag” has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford dictionary describes a spice bag as a “takeaway meal typically ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update. The OED is ...

A spice bag is an Irish chinese takeaway staple, often accompanied with curry sauce Words including "class" and "spice bag" have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its latest update.

Words including "class" and "spice bag" have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its latest update. A number of new words including eight Hiberno ...

The first-ever animated feature film in the Wolastoqey language explores themes of trauma, mental illness, and healing ...