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 ...

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 ...

An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) By Sandra E. Garcia In a recent online ...

Welcome to the latest instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s Football Cliches podcast, a parallel mission into the heart of the tiny things in football you never thought ...

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 ...