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

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

a digital resource of the ancient Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, and repositories for ancient inscriptions and handwritten texts. These resources have played a crucial role in linguistic ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has officially added 11 uniquely Filipino words, including gigil, kababayan, and salakot, to its March 2025 update. “A word that appears regularly on lists of ...

And that word happens to originate from the Philippines: "gigil." The word has made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as "an intense feeling caused by anger, eagerness or the ...

In January 2025, the Oxford English Dictionary included a batch of newly adopted words, among which seven were transliterations from Korean. These terms, arranged alphabetically, are: dalgona (a ...

Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — Gigil The Oxford English Dictionary has included a list of ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino words like "gigil" and "kababayan" have been included in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). In the dictionary's first quarter update for ...

Newly added Philippine words include videoke, a karaoke-like pastime with a scoring system, and salakot, a wide-brimmed, lightweight hat worn by farmers. Gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) is among the ...