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The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...
Oxford senior Kye McEwen has been accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an $84,820 annual scholarship. During McEwen’s exit interview prior to graduation, many of the ...
The slang term at the center of a political brouhaha swirling around former FBI Director James Comey is an old one, likely originating as food-service-industry jargon before extending to other context ...
President Donald Trump is on an international trip through the Middle East this week, and during his stop in the United Arab ...
Hi everyone! As I write this, it is currently May Morning here in Oxford, the date of a centuries-old tradition dedicated to ...
How are we able to recall a word we want to say? This basic ability, called word retrieval, is often compromised in patients with brain damage. Interestingly, many patients who can name words they see ...
How are we able to recall a word we want to say? This basic ability, called word retrieval, is often compromised in patients ...
The British prime minister is raising the requirements in concert with an immigration crackdown to end the U.K.'s "failed ...
During a Monday press conference, President Donald Trump claimed he invented a word that has been in use since the 1580s.