Oxford University Press has released its shortlist for the 2024 word of the year. Here's how to cast your vote.
In American English, grammar experts prefer "toward" over "towards," along with "backward," "forward" and "afterward," though ...
Oxford University Press has announced its 2024 Word of the Year contenders, including demure, brain rot, lore, dynamic ...
And if you’re a true dictionary lover, then you can always name your child “Merriam” or “Webster,” in honor of the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States. All jokes aside, word names offer ...
In Julie Flett’s “Let’s Go! haw êkwa!” and Kirsten Cappy and Yaya Gentille’s “Kende! Kende! Kende!” going is just the ...
Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics. As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US ...
However, the original meaning of the word is completely different, and means “very bad” or “exciting fear”—it does sound like ...
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We must invite the Collins Dictionary folks here, if they’re not already here. Their top picks for word of the year are strangely apt for the local setting --it’s as if they were all digital nomads in ...
TACKY is a word that everyone knows, and while 'K' is an unusual character, it's often found between 'C' and 'Y' at the end of five-letter words. I began with ORATE, which contains all five of the ...
Tap on Find option Enter the word or phrase you want to find. Enter the text Tap on the “Settings gear” icon on the upper left corner of the display. Tap on the Settings icon Select the options you ...
Hundreds of Wordle puzzles have passed since the game was first unleashed onto the world, and there's now a burgeoning repository of words that now cannot be used for any future Wordle puzzles. If you ...