We speak with a professor in Wales who's working on an ancient Celtic dictionary.

Foras na Gaeilge said the dictionary is aimed at giving a new way to understand and use the Irish language without relying on ...

Are we all eating too much salt? Neil and Georgie teach you some useful vocabulary. And salty! Everyone knows that salt makes food taste better by enhancing the flavours of the ingredients. There's ...

Perhaps the most contentious choice in 2025 was “6-7,” chosen by Dictionary.com. In this case, the controversy has to do with ...

Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

A look at the Oxford English Dictionary 2025 "word of the year," viewed by a person old enough to actually own, sort of, a ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious ...

The most important predictor of vocabulary learning is the number of words that children hear from adults (for example during interactions, conversations, play, book reading). As children learn new ...

Fun was first a verb meaning "to cheat or hoax." It came from fon, an old word for "fool." It still retains some of that sense in “make fun of,” but now also means "a merry good time." Fond also goes ...

A huge Boots storyline revolves around Sullivan's Semper Fi tattoo but what does it mean? Here's the English translation. Netflix's new series Boots is filled with twists and turns but it may also ...

What new Welsh words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary? A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...