With the arrival of the First Fleet, the colonising British began displacing First Nations languages to install English as the official language of Australia. Almost immediately, the new inhabitants ...

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

The English For Everyone series, co-created by CTPH and UK's DK Publishing, is a comprehensive English learning book series ...

Step up your game and impress your friends with your knowledge of these sports idioms and terms, plus where they came from.

Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...

"What if we slowed down and savored flavors, smells, and textures?" asks Betsy Andrews as she considers the science behind ...

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s recently published ...

Dudes, dudines and dudettes of Australia, we need to talk about border security. Our long-time frenemies—the Americans (hey ...

The news broke out this week, which is being widely circulated, that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has included a new set of 22 Nigerian words in its dictionary. This was acknowledged and ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

Words indigenous to Nigeria such as 'Japa', 'Agbero', 'Suya', 'Abi' and others have now found a home in the latest published update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The updated published ...