A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...

The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region. The longest word is “carry-go-bring-come." It dates from 1825 and means gossip ...

Susie Dent’s winning novel follows a team of lexicographers investigating cryptic letters related to a long-ago disappearance ...

Merriam-Webster took the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries. New words include ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are ...

The Welsh language words Croeso (meaning welcome), diolch (thank you), nos da (goodnight) and shwmae (hello) have also been ...

Dictionary.com, which boasts 70 million monthly users, on Tuesday announced its biggest ever revision, with more than 15,000 words updated, many to reflect the social upheaval and racial unrest of ...

A Korean dish consisting of cooked rice and other ingredients wrapped in a sheet of seaweed and cut into bite-sized slices.” This is the definition of kimbap according to the Oxford English Dictionary ...

The Cambridge Dictionary recently caused a stir when 'skibidi', 'delulu' and 'tradwife' were among more than 6,000 new ...

Dent is a lexicographer and TV presenter in Britain, where for more than two decades she’s been talking about words on the ...