Collins Dictionary has officially declared the word 'brat' as the word of the year. Many phrases popularised by social media ...

Tolkien took the drama of the word “catastrophe” and turned it on its head by adding eu, meaning “good”. A eucatastrophe is a ...

Collins Dictionary has declared “brat” – the album title that became a summer-living ideal – its 2024 word of the year. The ...

Old English was even more complex and included a third category ... “Y’all” is the Southern solution to this ambiguity. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest attested written use of ...

A Dubliner returning to France finds smoky bars replaced by bubblegum clouds from vapes, that you no longer risk going ...

The most popular internet slang words have been revealed. How many do you know, and do you know what they mean? Take our quiz ...

Rachel Reeves has welcomed the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates from 5 per cent to 4.75 per cent. She said ...

A new study has revealed the most searched slang words in Indiana for 2024, and the list definitely includes a few terms that ...

Charli XCX’s new definition of messiness has been named Word of the Year. But she’s hardly the first pop star to make it into the dictionary ...

"reserved, modest or shy in manner or appearance. The TikTok user Jools Lebron made a series of viral videos using the phrase ...

"Inspired by the Charli XCX album, 'brat' has become one of the most talked about words of 2024," said the UK-based ...

The meaning given to rag-bag legislation by the Supreme Court, and later followed by several High Courts, is conceptually ...