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There are about a million words in the English language, but do you know the longest word in English? You may think it’s ...
Be it asweddumized fields or mallung in a rice and curry meal, kiribath for a special occasion, sizzling kottu, scrumptious ...
Columnist and author June Casagrande ponders singular vs. plural nouns, plus the nagging questions behind subject-verb ...
Ever wondered why a group of crows is called a murder… or why owls form a parliament? Does Gen-Z slang make you tear your hair out, and are our local dialects really dying out? Which orange came first ...
A Victoria-born word is among the latest additions to A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Created in 1967, ...
Third edition includes popular homegrown Canadian slang such as bunny hug and depanneur, along with plenty of surprises ...
That project, which is due for publication around 2028, is headed by Toronto editor John Chew, and will include the UBC lab’s compilation of Canadianisms. It will be the first fully Canadian ...
If that all made sense (though it may be a bit dated), you might enjoy the Dictionary of Canadianisms from UBC. The Vancouver university has released a third edition of the project (which was ...
India has given many words to the English language. But perhaps none as weighty as ‘juggernaut’. Derived from Lord Jagannath, ...
If you find it distracting or simply annoying, check our post to learn how to remove red underline in Word on PC as well as ...
There seems to be no end in sight to headline-grabbing controversies at the White House, during US President Donald Trump’s ...