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

In January 2025, PREMIUM TIMES reported that the Oxford English Dictionary added Nigerian terms, including Japa, 419, agberoo, abi, area boy, yahoo boy, yahoo, Edo, and Kanuri, to its global ...

Before we used the internet, these words meant something else entirely. Read on to learn the original meaning of 10 everyday ...

First Word in the Dictionary: The first word in most English dictionaries is “Aardvark.” It appears before all other words because it begins with double A (AA) , which alphabetically comes before ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Ever wondered what the longest word in the dictionary is? It’s pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45‑letter monster that describes a lung disease ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

A Python script that uses Gemini AI and Google Text-to-Speech to collect, validate, and store rich dictionary data with audio, built for NLP and language dataset generation.

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 ...

Sentiment analysis, i.e., determining the emotional tone of a text, has become a crucial tool for researchers, developers, and businesses to comprehend social media trends, consumer feedback, and ...

English learners accounted for 10.6 percent of all public school students in fall 2021, up from 9.4 percent in fall 2011. That’s according to federal data updated in May which tracks this student ...

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...