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 ...

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The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.

I’m expected to go along with this farce and play the Wedding Guest: dressing up, sitting through it all, congratulating them ...

We owe it to women and mothers to shift the national conversation on homelessness and debt, say academics Katherine Brickell ...

Speaking to NPR, Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, said that in the first Oxford English Dictionary, ...

An analysis of the most searched slang terms reveals some words that may confuse you. That's kind of the point.

It took the commander-in-chief several attempts to get the name of the medication he’d just linked to autism right.

Editorial writer Steven Macoy says American leaders across the political spectrum consistently fail to use plain, accurate language.

"Shotgun!" Every kid knows what this means, but where did the idea come from? A linguist explains this history-filled expression.

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