Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

Laurie Knox has provided a list of seven common words in the English language you may not have realised are acronyms of terms ...

Five years after the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 29 Nigerian loanwords, 20 more terms from Nigeria and Ghana have ...

While he very much believed in his own epigram that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in ...

One could be forgiven for thinking upon hearing the origins of the third most popular slang term for children that the world ...

Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary, OED listed 22 Nigerian into its vocabulary Kingsley Ugwuanyi, OED consultant who ...

The word ‘kindness’ has been chosen as Children's Word of the Year for 2024 after a survey of thousands of young people.View ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ ...

I was thrilled last Tuesday when Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, ...

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" retrospectives—the past year's best movies, best albums, best books—which set the ...

The Department of Canadian Heritage supports two official languages funding programs from which several initiatives are derived. The collective goal of these programs is to: Enhance the vitality of ...

Until Gen Beta becomes articulate, though, the language which is being used and negotiated is that of previous generations. With Gen Z and Gen Alpha growing up in highly digital and hyperconnected ...