Keir Starmer has been urged to fine nuisance public transport users who play music out loud on buses and trains up to £1,000.

A Russian peasant With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, Jesse Inman earned the record of the highest-scoring opening ...

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in ...

Pokemon gets an official encyclopedia that takes an academic approach to exploring the lives of over 1,000 pocket monsters in ...

Are you in the mood for some good food? You might encounter certain English words when eating at a Western restaurant. To make things easier, we have rounded up the terms and phrases to know when ...

READ MORE: Brides 'feel good about their skin' before their wedding day thanks to anti-blemish serum To spice things up further, Scots have their own interpretations of common English words.

a very common Spanish-English false friend. (Photo by RODRIGO CABRITA / DIARIO DE NOTICIAS / AFP) English and Spanish speakers learning each other's languages have to deal with the challenge of false ...

If you haven’t taken a photo in front of the chapel, did you really go to UD? This iconic 1869 building is a Flyer photo staple. After all, what says UD more than the chapel blue dome against a sky ...

Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — Gigil The Oxford English Dictionary has included a list of ...

a common exclamation in Singapore and Malaysia used to express surprise or disbelief, has also made it into the dictionary. “Wouldn’t it be useful for English speakers to have a specific word ...

Spice bag', 'ludraman' and 'class' are among the Irish English words that have been added to ... along with the common Irish English phrase 'to act the maggot'. The OED described the debs as ...

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