Did you know these are the most hated English words?
As an omnivorous consumer of words, whether good, bad, or ugly, I tend not to discriminate among them, embracing them all as grist to the mill of my somewhat eclectic…
The 60 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language
While languages like Portuguese and French are known for their romantic words and aesthetically pleasing phrases, there’s a lot to say about the beauty of the English language. After all,…
Meet the American author coining new English words for complicated feelings
The sense of loss experienced after finishing a book. PREMIUM One of Koenig’s words is ‘sonder’, the realisation that each passerby’s life is as vivid and complex as your own.…
The mother nature-inspired decor of this property suits its idyllic English region environment |
‘The views of the North Downs were a beginning issue of inspiration for the types,’ claims Pia Pelkonen. The mock Georgian region property, just one of the world’s most effective…
Have some dignity, Oxford English Dictionary. No one says ‘goblin mode’ | Rachel Connolly
Society has fallen. The nuclear alarm sounds. Fires rage across the face of the Earth as devastation is wreaked by earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. A fleet of aliens has landed,…
The Oxford English Dictionary: its editors and its history
The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition for “Terf”, an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, which this month has been added to its…
The Most Complicated Word in English
Three little letters, 645 meanings. Imagine you’re a dictionary editor. For eight hours a day, five days a week, every week until the heat death of the universe or the…
New Oxford dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English : NPR
Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used. A new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.…
Word in progress: Addition of slangs to English dictionaries
By Reya Mehrotra If Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the ‘father of English literature’ was to be alive again, he would not get what was being said in his own mother…