The Oxford English Dictionary has looked across the Irish Sea for some new additions that show our influence on the language.

There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. The Oxford English Dictionary is the longest English variant of its ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has added nine new Singlish expressions, including "boleh", "jialat", and "ice kacang" in its ...

Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added several Malaysian and Singaporean English ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

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 ...

As nations across the globe face a plethora of ongoing crises, the Collins English Dictionary Tuesday revealed its 2022 word of the year to be "permacrisis," a term to describe such events.

Three little letters, 645 meanings.

Note: If you don’t like to read the c-word, you should probably stop reading. On the rare occasion that people think of lexicographers, they don’t usually imagine those scholars sitting around ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After three years of hard work and months of beta testing, the League for Yiddish has launched an online version of its popular Comprehensive ...