It’s a phrase you are more likely to hear outside a Scottish kebab shop after a night out than see in the pages of the principal dictionary of the English language.

From ‘hammajang’ to ‘munted’, lexicographers have issued a worldwide call for regionally distinctive words to define The Oxford English Dictionary is asking the public to help it mine the regional ...

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 ...

One is a tradition peculiar to patrons of Edinburgh fish and chip shops while the other is favourite across Aberdeenshire.

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 ...

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 ...

The Oxford English Dictionary is adding seven new terms from Canadian English, helping the rest of the world see Canadians ...

An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book ...

Classic Australian slang terms have been recognised as part of a historical documentation of how the English language has ...

Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its January 2020 update included 29 Nigerian English words. The reception, in both the traditional and new media ...

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 ...