Dozens of nature words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in order to make room for modern technology-related words. The English language, like most living languages, is constantly ...

Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion among authors protesting at dropping definitions of words like ‘acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ in favour of ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste’ “A” should be for acorn, “B” for ...

The CAPS English First additional language for Grade 1-3 clearly states that children are often able to decode in their additional language, but are unable to understand what they read. This results ...

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...

Dictionary.com has officially revealed its newest Word of the Year. The online dictionary announced Wednesday that "67" is ...