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Anti-vaxxer, willy-waver and Wagwan among new Oxford dictionary words – see list
Long Covid, snackette and bath bombs are also among the new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary but it is the pandemic that has had a big effect on the language this yearAnti-vaccine protests at Clapham Common (Image: Ian Vogler /…
Launch of the very first South African language dictionary Kaaps – why it matters
It has been around since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town in South Africa, has never had a dictionary until now. The trilingual dictionary of Kaaps has been spear by a collective of academic and community actors…
Mike Richards mocked Dictionary’s Twitter account after Jeopardy! saga
Mike Richards was mocked by Dictionary.com's Twitter account after he stepped down from his role as Danger! host.The Twitter profile, which has nearly 400,000 followers, posted: “'Jeopardy' is a name meaning 'peril or danger'. Here it is…
Family tries to enter dictionary to ‘orbisculate’ to honor father who died from Covid-19
“I was trying to tell people about my dad and how really funny, creative and very original he was and could still see the humor and the bright side of the situation. I kept coming back to the word orbisculate as a way to capture that,…
What’s the word for a word that sends you to the dictionary?
Sanguine. Bathos. Calming. You know these words, but do you really know them? Just like the timid and the palimpsest. Clear and elongated. Bucolic and sequestration. Welcome to the slippery realm of lapsonyms, those words that…