The NYT’s guide is particularly notable for its insistence that a significant amount of today’s slang isn’t new at all. The ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

Ghanaian culture features prominently in the update. Traditional dance forms like adowa, a style originating among the Akan ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions arranged in alphabetical order. In an English dictionary you'll find words beginning with ‘a’ at the front and ‘z’ at the back. There ...

No matter how long you've been reading, no matter how vast your vocabulary is, you'll always find words you just don't know from time to time. The Mac's built-in Dictionary app makes those moments ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...