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A circus performer, an unsociable student or someone who is ahead of the curve? Over the decades, a “geek” has been all three ...
However, the annual celebration of Robert Burns has only now been added to the Oxford English ... Liz Lochhead’s 1989 book True Confessions and New Cliches. The dictionary said ‘Burns Night ...
Countdown star Susie Dent is “delighted” that she is being honoured for sharing her joy of language. The lexicographer, ...
The Oxford-based lexicographer, etymologist and author, 59, has been made an MBE for services to literature and to language ...
Manifesto is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as a public declaration of policy and aims; a recognition that such ...
If you haven’t been asleep for the past 20 years, you’ll probably recognize this exchange as a dad joke. The term dad joke is ...
Local housebuilder, Barratt David Wilson Homes, which is currently building homes at the Kingsbrook development, has donated ...
From ‘catawampus’ to ‘hobbledehoy’, in Origin Uncertain the linguist Anatoly Liberman takes us on a riveting tour of strange ...
Viral copypasta claimed the lullaby was inspired by the tribe's practice of cradling their babies in birch trees.
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