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A Hausa-English dictionary was launched on Saturday at Bayero University in Kano (BUK). The 627-page book, written by Indiana-based American linguistics scholar Paul Newman and his wife, Roxana, was published by BUK press. Newman was in…

Allyship is the Dictionary.com Word of the Year from the old name to the new.The site with 70 million monthly users took the unusual step of anointing a word it added last month, although the "alliance" first surfaced in the mid-1800s,…

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…

In a year in which musician Grimes sold a collection of digital artwork for almost $ 6million (£ 4.4million) and the original photo behind the Disaster Girl meme of 2005 for $ 473,000 (£ 354,000), Collins…

They let the dictionary define them as a person. Urban Dictionary is often seen as a sophomoric source for dirty words, but now bored social media users have tapped into the participatory glossary for something…

The House of Commons: When it was discovered that former Cabinet Minister Owen Paterson had violated lobbying rules and rules of conduct for MPs, the term "sleaze" was a linguistic slam-dunk à la both for the opposition and…

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has revealed its word of the year for 2021: vax, with usage 72 times higher than last year.The dictionary noted a significant increase in the number of vaccine-related words and phrases over the past 12…

Saturday is National Dictionary Day and what better way to celebrate than to learn some facts about the reference book? The United States celebrates National Dictionary Day on October 16 each year in honor of the birthday of Noah Webster,…

If you don't spend most of your time on the internet, it can be difficult to keep up with the changing jargon of the digital age. Fortunately, the editors of Merriam webster have done the hard work of…

The Oxford English Dictionary is an institution almost 135 years old, but it is no better than recognizing distorted terminology once it enters the popular lexicon. Buttmunch, assfuck, and douchebaggery are…

Oxford University Press reported that the September dictionary update included 26 words related to Korean culture. SEOUL, Oct 7 (Korea Bizwire) - Some 20 new words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)!--div>…

CHANGE OF USE: Adoption of Korean words into English shows how lexical innovation is no longer confined to UK and US,…

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…

Ghost words have nothing to do with apparitions from another world, but they are enough to frighten lexicographers. Invented by the philologist Walter william skeat in 1886, ghost words were often the…

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 /…

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…

The teacher: a neat, graying beard, clear eyes, a loving, determined husband and father. The doctor: shaggy beard; often crazy eyes; plagued by terrible memories, hallucinations and guilt. The two men's parallel stories -…

The Spanish-English Dictionary of Gardening and Landscaping Prepare to plant! OAXACA, OAXACA, MEXICO, February 19, 2021…

The Yorùbá Academy Board of Trustees and Management Committee announced the appointment of Kọ́lá…

the Oxford English Dictionary (WD) doesn't just define words. It gives alternative spellings, etymologies, and examples of their uses in citations from printed texts. And it does so, as the original column put it, “on historical…

Languages ​​are harsh. As soon as you think you have mastered a grammar rule, a dozen exceptions appear. When you think you've learned the definition of a word, you find that it has seven other…

The first incomplete Navajo-English Dictionary was compiled in 1958 by Leon Wall, an official in the Office of Indian Affairs of the United States government. Wall, who was in charge of a literacy program in the Navajo reservation, worked…

Teighteenth-century popular lexicographer Nathaniel Bailey struggled with certain definitions. When it came to "spider", he got on with it, with "a well-known insect". Mind you, he had already dug through his reference file and told us…