In this video, we cover the pronunciation of various words, including: - 'ate' - 'interest' - 'homage' - 'garage' - 'koala' - ...

Oxford Dictionaries says its annual word of the year reflects the mood of the past 12 months and that it also seeks to choose something with the potential for lasting cultural significance.

Dictionaries were removed from library shelves in a Florida school district last year as part of an investigation of more than 1,600 titles for mentions of “sexual conduct” that could violate ...

This year, CNN Opinion wanted to know what YOUR word of the year would be – and why. Your answers were memorable, direct and in some cases, heartbreaking, writes Jane Greenway Carr.

After donating a total of 4,000 dictionaries to date, this is the first time they were denied. The Rotary Club partners with the Dictionary Project to send dictionaries to schools.

Keys in dictionaries. A Python dictionary key can be nearly any Python object. I say “nearly” because the object in question must be hashable, meaning that it must have a hash value (the ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30). Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study ...

In some dictionaries and on some websites, synonyms for woman include words like bitch, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail and biddy. You get the idea.

When submitting the name of a fellow Rotary Club of Cleveland member for this year’s Rotarian of the Year Award, the ...

Dictionaries hold a crucial place in the world of legal literature. Judges, lawyers, law students, and laypeople grapple with the language of the law every day and have done so for centuries. The ...

Shakira recently spoke about her personal knowledge of the 'constant fear' immigrants are living with in the United States.

Two Tennessee Republicans have proposed a bill requiring all driver's license tests to be administered in English only. The bill would also ban the use of translation dictionaries, electronic ...