The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has included 22 new expressions from Nigeria and other West African countries in its latest update, acknowledging the region’s growing impact on global English ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its lexicon with the addition of new Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update, published in December 2025 and carried into 2026. The update ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

If you felt a personal connection with a celebrity this year, you likely weren't alone. That feeling led Cambridge Dictionary to select "parasocial" as its 2025 word of the year. Parasocial is defined ...

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including ...

Bonzer. Dinkum. Troppo. We love our distinctive words and phrases. We revel in the confusion they cause outsiders. We celebrate the stories behind them. We even make up a few furphies about them. What ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

It can be hard to describe that feeling of being overcome by the unbearable cuteness of a fluffy little cat or a chubby-cheeked baby. But there’s now an official word for it in English: gigil.

If you don’t know what CSV stands for, stop right here. It stands for “comma-separated values” and is a funny, least-common-denominator format used to pass field-based data in rows—tabular ...