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 ...

When people want to say that something is cracking them up, they can remark that it is "sending me." The phrase is "the Gen Z equivalent of LOL," said Fortune. And while "there is no official ...

"Big yikes" is a phrase used in response to "something that's really embarrassing, disturbing, or shocking," said Reader's Digest. Using it "expresses a strong sense of cringe, awkwardness or ...

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 ...

Be it asweddumized fields or mallung in a rice and curry meal, kiribath for a special occasion, sizzling kottu, scrumptious ...

Do your students ask you how to spell “because” three times a week, even though it’s on the word wall? It might be time to dust off those dictionary skills. And yes, I included the answer keys with ...

Acadictionnaire — a mix of Acadia and dictionary — takes audiences through the ABCs of Acadian history in both official ...

The Oxford dictionary of difficult words by Hobson, Archie, 1946- Publication date 2004 Topics English language, English language, Langues, Dictionnaires, English language, English language Publisher ...

Although French is officially my first language it’s fair to say that with a father who couldn’t speak English and a mother who couldn’t speak French, I grew up functionally bilingual.

For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the Australian National Dictionary Centre.