BY OGUNGBILE EMMANUEL OLUDOTUN I was thrilled last Tuesday when Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant to ...

22 Nigerian words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the latest update.

Words commonly used in association with video games and the name of a Dutch sweet treat are among the terms that have been ...

Users are tweeting that OpenAI's ChatGPT o1 advanced model suddenly switches into Chinese. How? Why? Here is a logical basis ...

Happy New Year, Scrolling in the Deepers! It’s 2025, which marks the official start of Generation Beta, ushering in the ...

The Oxford English Dictionary now features 'maknae', a Korean term highlighting K-pop's influence, alongside six other Korean ...

Great op-ed by Camilla Cavendish on the importance of plain English ( December 28 ). However, my enjoyment was briefly interrupted when I had to look up the definition of “otiose”. It made me smile, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a "blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a 'faux pas'." It evokes a ...

Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...

In any other court of law, advocates are granted access to court to be able to do their duty to represent the accused persons ...

My December 21, 2024, column titled “Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths,” where I set out to show that ...