Local freelance artist Braima Moiwai recently returned from Sierra Leone with a gift of a woven blanket designed for the ...

For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College drank wine and served chocolates from a silver-rimmed chalice made from ...

A book set to be released in the U.K. has once again brought attention to the country's colonial history. The book reveals ...

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.

Broken CountryBy Clare Leslie Hall Beth lives in a small, charming village in the English countryside. As a teen during the ...

Class VI mathematics and social science textbooks were available in August for theacademic session that started in April. This year too, all schools started the new academic session last week, but the ...

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is working on an ambitious plan to make textbooks available for all engineering ... tell industries to give these students a chance. For many, ...

It has been used for generations to tell children it's time to get to bed. According to the Oxford English Dictionary's website, the earlier evidence for the use of beddy-baw is from the Buchan ...

A user called @gaynorduncan wrote: "Off to my beddy baws for another nite of trying to sleep while weather makes ye feel too warm... sweet dreams." Other variations of the phrase are beddie-ba, beddie ...

This March, gigil was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as the newest Filipino word in the Philippine English category. But aside from gigil, 10 more Filipino words made it to the list. They are ...

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 ...