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‘Quarantine’ is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2020
Cambridge Dictionary has announced quarantine as Word of the Year 2020, after data shows it was one of the most highly searched words on...
New Dictionary Preserves Rare Indigenous language Umpithamu of Cape York, Australia
Jean-Christophe Verstraete, a professor of linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, worked closely with two sisters who were the last speakers of Umpithamu to...
Merriam Webster Announces ‘They’ as Word of the Year
The U.S. dictionary Merriam Webster has announced that the gender-neutral singular pronoun 'they' is the word of the year for 2019. The word, which...
This Dictionary Illuminates the Meaning of Everything
Richard Lederer celebrates “the most impressive collective achievement of our civilization”
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the greatest monument ever erected to the...
Swedish Dictionary Officially Includes Gender-Neutral Pronoun
The Swedish Academy's SAOL dictionary is being republished on April 15, 2015 with thousands of new words. Among them is the gender-neutral pronoun “hen”,...
New Chinese Dictionary Reflects Modern China
Additions include nouveau riche and the WeChat social media app.
The Chinese language regulator has approved of a new edition of the Standard Dictionary of...
Dictionary Adds 150 Words to 2014 Edition
‘Selfie’ ‘crowdfunding’ and turducken’ are among 150 new words added to the 2014 updated version of the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary; the company have...
