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 prestigious UK publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to ...

Existence of phrase – to describe content intended to make you angry – shows people are aware of manipulation tactics used online, says Oxford Dictionary publisher Good news for those who find their ...

The Oxford University Press, which publishes the dictionary, announced that its Word of the Year this year is “rage bait,” which it defines as a noun meaning: “Online content deliberately designed to ...

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to ...

Even if you don't know the meaning of the Oxford University Press' word of the year for 2025, you've probably been a victim of it on social media. The publisher for the Oxford English Dictionary said ...

Oxford University has launched a new Master's degree course, MSt in Creative Translation. Undergraduates have long studied academic translation within Modern Language degrees, but to date, there has ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken,” wrote author Lynne Truss in her punctuation ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added several uniquely Sri Lankan words to its June 2025 update, OED.com has said.Among the new entries is “asweddumise”, meaning to prepare land for paddy ...

The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words - with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 new entries. There is also a listing for Scotland's shoogly subway trains - not the ...