The etymology of boo is uncertain. The OED compares it with the Latin boare or the Greek βοᾶν, meaning to "cry aloud, roar, [or] shout." Older dictionaries suggest it could be an onomatopoeia ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

Eleven New Zealand English and te reo Māori words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.Caleb Jones / AP Eleven New Zealand English and te reo Māori words have been ...

Kiwis have a fighting culture – if the Oxford English Dictionary is anything to go by. “Rark up” and to “climb into” are just a few of the New Zealand terms being added in the latest World English ...

“It is from the fancied resemblance of the bent and flattened point of the instrument to the bill of a crow, that it is called a crow-bar,” wrote one Buffalo News columnist in 1934. (The word was ...

From the usage examples for the word Hitlerist; the quote is from David's post Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century: When the speaker mentions that the government also slaughtered two ...

Apples grow on trees, and the government prints money. And words — words come from, well, other words. For example, the Lilliputians of Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” lent their name to a ...

THIS is so far the best of the smaller and cheaper English dictionaries that comparison seems almost ludicrous. We have a book of nearly 1500 pages, well printed and stoutly bound, for seven and ...

All your favourite Canadianisms—and 137 new ones—just got easier to find, right in time for Canada Day. The UBC editors of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles have released an ...

The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words - with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 new entries. There is also a listing for Scotland's shoogly subway trains - not the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Eleven Filipino words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its March 2025 update. In a commentary posted on its website, the Oxford English Dictionary explained: “Often ...