The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that ...

A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...

Origin and History The term "coxswain" originates from the Middle English word cokswayne, a combination of cok (meaning ...

An American content creator who is familiar with the UK and British culture has pointed out one word he says makes no sense ...

‘Poody’ comes from the Welsh ‘pwdu’, meaning to sulk, stemming originally from the English ‘pout’. It later became a noun, to ...

Swift’s vowels lengthened around the time she started singing more pop music, with a clearer distinction between words such ...

The English word diminution originates from the Latin word 'dēminūtio' (which means 'a lessening', which in turn comes from the verb dēminuere (to lessen), itself derived from minuere (to make small).

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The lettter 't' can be pronounced as a /t/ sound at the beginning of words, like 'tin' and 'top', or at the beginning of stressed syllables like 'hotel' and 'cartoon'. It can also be pronounced at the ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that ...