Reading my old copy of Dictionary of American Slang (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, brought ...

Almost a whole page of the Dictionary of American Regional English is dedicated to "wampus," a Southern term for a variety of real creatures, such as a wild horse, and imagined ones, such as swamp ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Along with Yiyun Li, Ha Jin and Gao Xingjian, Ms Guo is part of a cohort of celebrated writers of the Chinese diaspora who ...

The very characteristic American ... dictionary compilers to say, we’ve got our own language, we want to support our own printing houses, we’ll forge ahead with our own style of speaking English.

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 ...