There’s a word in the zeitgeist that illustrates the point, in fact – one that has been threatening the laissez-faire ...

From the approachable Northern English accent often associated with openness, to the Glaswegian accent which can be ...

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

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 ...

Among the newly enshrined entries are phrases and words such as yarn dust, area boy, adire, Kanuri, agbero, Edo, cross-carpet ...

The new words have been added as part of the December update (Ian Nicholson/PA) Elsewhere, stroopwafel has been added to the English dictionary, thanks to the treat’s growing popularity in the UK. The ...

The renowned author and behavioural scientist reveals how the misunderstood art of manifestation – grounded in science and ...

Hello and welcome to the Learning English Stories podcast ... to Accident and Emergency – we call it A&E in the UK. And we drove about forty minutes away. And when we got to the doctors ...

in which he decried 'the continual corruption of our English tongue'. On the list of other words Swift loathed were 'banter', 'sham', 'mob', 'bubble', and 'bully'. Such novelties, he wrote ...

The government has announced an extra £700m for English council budgets next year as a "first step" to rebuild their finances. The top-up brings additional funding for next year to around £2bn ...

Their task at the start was to “give certain rules to our language, to render it pure and eloquent” – to which end they set about writing their first dictionary. However, the job has proved ...