The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...

Ineffaceable is a word that embodies permanence in its most profound sense. Whether used to describe memories, experiences or ...

The slang term “LARP” has evolved far beyond its original meaning, shifting from real-world role-playing games to a prevalent ...

Idioms are figurative expressions whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definition of their individual words.

Saying that a specific person “coined” a new word is often a fairly tricky fact to verify, not least because someone’s work containing the earliest written record of a word doesn’t necessarily mean ...

Oxford University Press South Africa (OUPSA) has announced the first locally developed school resource to combine a dictionary and thesaurus in a single volume. More importantly, it’s designed for the ...

Graffiti spelling “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” in bright colors covers a long concrete barrier beside a highway, with cars and a red dump truck driving on ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

Zoomers, we have bad news: your six or seven minutes in the vanguard of the cultural zeitgeist are officially over. The New York Times has published a fresh guide to Gen Z slang. It’s all downhill ...

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Hit the sack, hold your horses, once in a blue moon and when pigs fly. What do all these strange turns of phrase have in common? They are all idioms. An idiom is an expression that is commonly ...