SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are ...

In a surprising announcement made yesterday, Oxford Dictionaries declared its 2015 Word of the Year isn't a word at all. It's the "Face With Tears of Joy," a move the lexicon guide says symbolizes ...

It's official: Truth is dead. Facts are passe. And this sentiment — 😂 — is so last year. Oxford Dictionaries has selected “post-truth” as 2016's international word of the year, after the contentious ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

Dozens of nature words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in order to make room for modern technology-related words. While it was noted at the time that dozens of nature words had been ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region. The longest word is “carry-go-bring-come." It dates from 1825 and means gossip ...

A picture apparently is worth a thousand words. The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2015 isn’t a word at all, but the “face with tears of joy” emoji. This is the first time that the Oxford ...

Oxford Dictionaries announced this week that the 2015 Word of the Year is not a word at all but an emoji — more specifically the “face with tears of joy” emoji. This is the first time since the ...