The Oxford English Dictionary needs your help. Do you know where words like disco, baked Alaska or email come from? For years the widely regarded authority in the English language has asked the public ...
With more than 37,000 votes, Oxford picked the Gen Alpha slang term "brain rot" as its 2024 Word of the Year. Here's what the term means.
What do the terms "carnap," "comfort room" and "mani-pedi" have in common? Not much save that they're examples of what's called Filipino English. And that they are among the many new additions to the ...
Language experts choosing the Oxford word of the year 2023 were dazzled by a bright young thing, selecting a relative newcomer, “rizz,” for the top spot. Derived from the word “charisma,” “rizz” ...
Oxford ELLT, a platform for English language level assessment, today announced the launch of its global campaign supporting its language testing products – Oxford ELLT Digital and Oxford ELLT Global.
Our obsession with streaming TV shows and films is changing our vocabulary. Binge-watching and spoiler alert were added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of a June update, the dictionary ...