Whether it’s a judicious use of the word “yinz” or the flattening of vowels in words like “out” or “down,” Pitts­burghers ...

There is a particular kind of reader — the sort who delights in words like jeremiad, philippic, or omnium gatherum— who will ...

In short, the modern degendering of English is continuing a centuries-long trajectory—gradually, in terms of its grammar, but ...

I love my dictionaries. I have five of them at my side as I write. With their assistance, I hope to chart some swirling ...

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New words added to Oxford Dictionary 2025: The Oxford English Dictionary 2025 update includes ten new words from different cultures and online trends. These additions show how English is growing ...

(1) IT is curious that so many industrious JL persons have issued, in the course of the last eighty years, one-sided dictionaries of Kafir (Xosa) dialect of the great Zulu language, and that no one ...

Many English verbs consist of two parts: a base verb and a preposition or an adverb particle. When the verb is used with the adverb particle, the combination is called a phrasal verb. There are a very ...

THIS is so far the best of the smaller and cheaper English dictionaries that comparison seems almost ludicrous. We have a book of nearly 1500 pages, well printed and stoutly bound, for seven and ...