He started working on a Ventureño Chumash dictionary nearly 20 years ago. Many of the words were uncovered by John Peabody Harrington, a former high school language teacher who later worked for the ...

In Gobsmacked! Yagoda has written a fun, informative exploration of our language, even if Noah Webster would find it worrying—or worrisome.

Collins heralded Brat as a concept that has conquered the world. “More than a hugely successful album, ‘brat’ is a cultural ...

An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, LL.D., New York 1828. The National Quilt Collection incorporates quilts from various ethnic groups and social classes, for quilts are ...

The word, used by singer Charli XCX as an album title, is defined as "characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude." ...

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and 'brat summer' established itself as an aesthetic and a way of life," the dictionary said. Collins experts monitor their 20-billion-word database to create the annual list of new and notable words ...

American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has for fifty years included a ... Academic libraries will want to have this as a supplement to their standard dictionary sources....Large ...

The Republican tariff movement grew throughout the late 1800s and arguably peaked with McKinley, Trump's tariff icon, in the 1890s.

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, ...

American linguists David Harrison and ... to develop a written accompaniment for the oral language, compile a dictionary, and teach native speakers to write. Linguists have identified a host ...

Not expecting such a language barrier can throw you for ... An Irish-English to American-English dictionary, if you will. His co-workers sent a copy of Tim’s endeavors to the Irish website ...