Early one morning in 1883, Alexander John Ellis went through his usual routine at his London home. He weighed himself naked; he took his customary light breakfast of a buttered French roll and a cup ...
Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...
Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. By Dennis Duncan Dennis ...
The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize that ...
The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...
The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with the inclusion of several Nigerian words and expressions in its ...
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its lexicon with the addition of new Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update ...
Reviewed by Ewart Shaw Friday 4th April 2025. What an Adelaide occasion. The Dictionary of Lost Words, the book by Pip Williams, adapted for the stage by Verity Lawton, is shared with an Adelaide ...
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