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Dictionary.com names the word of the year for 2021: “Allyship”
NEW YORK (AP) - Allyship, a revamped old name, is Dictionary.com's Word of the Year.
The research site with 70 million monthly users took the unusual step of anointing a word it added last month, although the "alliance" first…
IU Library Acquires Huge Collection of Dictionaries – WISH-TV | Indianapolis News | Indiana…
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) - The Lilly Library on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University created the Merriam-Webster Archives. The university says the archive was created from business…
UI library acquires massive collection of dictionaries
(photo courtesy of Kristen Wilkins / Lilly Library)
The Lilly Library on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University created the Merriam-Webster Archives. The university says the…
Korean words added to the Oxford English Dictionary
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Adoption of Korean words into English shows how lexical innovation is no longer confined to UK and US,…
Stay, bodily shame and essential worker all enter the Oxford dictionary in 2021 – but what…
More ... than 500 new words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2020. In June 2021 that number increased by 40%, with more than 700 words added in the first six months of 2021.
The origins of many words, such as…
PM Modi launches education initiatives, sign language dictionary
New Delhi, Sep 7 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched several initiatives in the education sector, including a sign language dictionary, as he addressed the inaugural conclave of 'Shikshak Parv' .Speaking to teachers and…
“It will transform lives”: the very first trilingual Kaaps dictionary under development
"The success of this project will help Kaaps speakers to participate fully in the South African economy." Photo: Supplied / CMDR…
Dictionary.com adds over 300 new words and definitions: NPR
Dictionary.com has added over 300 new words and…
The Oxford multilingual dictionary to encourage bilingualism in schools
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New words entering the French dictionary
French Dictionary Le Petit Larousse has added 170 new words to its 2022 dictionary, many of which are a direct and indirect result of the pandemic.
In a normal year, around 150 are added, distilled over the course of a year from a…
New version: The Spanish-English dictionary of gardening and landscaping
The Spanish-English Dictionary of Gardening and Landscaping
Prepare to plant!
OAXACA, OAXACA, MEXICO, February 19, 2021…
Cambridge dictionary announces ‘quarantine’ as 2020 word of the year
The Cambridge Dictionary announced 'quarantine' as the word of the year 2020, after data shows it to be one of the most searched words in the Cambridge Dictionary this year.
Quarantine was the only word to rank in the top five for…
“Quarantine” is the Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2020
Cambridge Dictionary announced quarantine as Word of the Year 2020, after data shows it was one of the most searched words in the Cambridge Dictionary this year.
Quarantine was the only word to rank in the top five for search peaks and…