The Oxford English Dictionary has added eight words drawn from South Korean culture in its latest quarterly update, Oxford ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has added several Nigerian-origin words in its latest update, reflecting the growing global ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with the addition of 24 Nigerian words and expressions such as “nyash, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its lexicon for 2026 with the inclusion of over 22 new expressions drawn from Nigeria and other West African ...

Oxford Dictionary had added Nigerian words like nyash, amala and mammy market, reflecting the growing global influence of ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize that ...

Oxford English Dictionary Adds Eight Korean Words Inclusion reflects Hallyus global influence, adding terms like sunbae and ...

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Analysis shows obscure and barely-used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time ...

From dropped words to fake definitions, learn fun facts, hearsay, and scandal about our most useful language resource, and the words that make it up. You might be surprised to learn what the most ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...