By the late 1880s, about a decade into his 36-year tenure as editor of The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Murray made a shocking discovery. He had recruited a team of volunteer readers to collect ...

The word 'Aura', with its Latin and Ancient Greek origins saying it as another word for wins, is described in the Oxford Eng ...

The Oxford English Dictionary recently added the term 'maknae' along with six other Korean words in its new word update in December 2024, and fans now have BTS member Jungkook to credit.

Discover the countries with the most 'living languages' – at number one is a nation that speaks more than 800 different dialects ...

Do the courts require courage to grant bail to those behind bars or is the Constitution sufficient to empower them to decide ...

• ...

CHENNAI: With the support of the Tamil Nadu government, Oxford University Press (OUP ... OUP had a significant Indian language translation wing, which is being revived with the support of the ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English ... have worked with 13 Indian languages and published four dictionaries in Tamil.

Since 2020 our team has been investigating the links between the RA and its colonial past. Research into the Royal Academy of ...

Culturally, I don’t sit at ease in either English or Indian spaces. Whenever I’ve visited a temple, I’ve felt like an outsider, an intruder into a space I don’t really understand. I grasp the basics ...

On February 1, 2003, the world lost Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members aboard the Space ...

Nobody asked, but we’re here to keep you in the loop with the stories everyone’s talking about!