The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a ...

A series of new words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its latest update – including eight Hiberno-English words, 11 Philippine-English words and 11 South African terms.

Ros, who died in 1939, abused (some would say, tortured) the English language in three novels and dozens of poems. She refers to eyes as "globes of glare," legs as "bony supports," pants as a ...

Each year, Oxford English Dictionary editors review thousands of new word suggestions, drawn from various sources, including the editors’ own reading, crowdsourced efforts, and the analysis of ...

The OED contains more than 600,000 words, making it one of the most comprehensive dictionaries in the English-speaking world. Its editors consider thousands of new word suggestions each year.

First words are a huge milestone for babies. But when should you expect them? Here's what the experts say about when babies ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize ...