Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The ...
The Oxford Dictionary has unveiled 'rage bait' as its word of the year for 2025, a term that encapsulates the provocative ...
But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being ...
Don’t give up on cherished idioms that seem ‘fossilized.’ They might be some of the most important to pass along to future ...
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Words of the year are bit of a worry

More words or phrases of the year have been drifting in courtesy of the major dictionaries and I'm afraid most of them are ...
THOMAS Roebuck was a 19th-centruy Scottish orientalist and lexicographer. Roebuck knew Urdu, Hindi and Persian ...
The word ‘yule' gets thrown around a lot during the Christmas season, but what does it even mean? Well, like so many of the ...
I’ve been working on an article continuing my exploration of human creativity and generative AI. This time, I take ...
We might be disillusioned by the main parties, but it’s no reason to rush headlong into the arms of. Just look at their ...
Following the 2026 World Cup draw, which set the group-stage fixtures, a study by the Athletic has now ranked each group by ...
Carnegie named the water hole Empress Spring, for Queen Victoria. They stayed and rested and Carnegie writes “but for the ...
With the row still rumbling on into last week’s comms shit show that was the budget, it feels as though the usual Christmas marketing calendar has ...