When I need to picture possible winning words, I utilize Xs to spell out the correct letters I know so far. So far, the ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added Welsh words to its latest update. The OED's update, released on Thursday, September 19, added a variety of Welsh words, including "ych a fi", a Welsh ...

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

Popular Italian dictionary Zingarelli has unveiled 10 neologisms that will be included in its 2025 edition, with six borrowed ...

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The term “waka jumper” has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The colloquial phrase, which is used almost ...

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Until the 1500s, over a few centuries of language change, it was spelled gast, gæst, gost, goste, goost, and goist.