Each year, the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update the prestigious tome with new words. In 2022, ...

The Collins English Dictionary announced on Friday that its' 2024 Word of the Year is "brat," inspired by Charli XCX 's album ...

Brat' has been named word of the year by dictionary publisher Collins due to the cultural phenomenon around the Charli XCX album of the same name.

So the sultan sent his line to Hafiz of Shiraz with a request to complete the couplet by composing the second line. Legend ...

Brace yourself. I’m about to have a rant (before I do, as a highly trained journalist and consummate professional, rest assured that I do not ...

Ever since his 1988 debut The Swimming-Pool Library caused a stir, Hollinghurst has captured the hedonism of affluent gay men ...

A BIBLIOGRAPHY is “a list of sources referred to in a particular work” and “a list of the books of a specific author or on a specific subject”, says Concise Oxford English Dictionary ...

Han Kang’s eminence in the literary world was reaffirmed by the Swedish Academy’s announcement on Thursday that she will be conferred this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Though she has ...

Oxford was named the best-performing university globally, ahead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, which took second place. The University of Cambridge took fifth ...

A national property consultancy has marked 100 years in Oxford. Carter Jonas celebrated the milestone with an event at the Ashmolean Museum on September 19. More than 150 clients, colleagues ...

Back in the 1970s, James Sutherland prompted a flurry of Oxford anthologies with his hugely successful Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. Though much admired at the time, it was, as far as the lay ...

Ten Welsh words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it has been announced. The OED is updated quarterly with new words, senses and revisions to entries ...