The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, the ...

NEW YORK — Are you a locavore who decries the tapafication of restaurants or a latte liberal on the fence about Billary? No matter, the explosion of new words in the English language is enough to make ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize that ...

There are about a million words in the English language, but do you know the longest word in English? You may think it’s antidisestablishmentarianism, at 28 letters ...

New words added to Oxford Dictionary 2025: The Oxford English Dictionary 2025 update includes ten new words from different cultures and online trends. These additions show how English is growing ...

The Twitter account for the Merriam-Webster dictionary put out a call asking people to share words in other languages that don't fully translate to English. People came through. The dictionary tweeted ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

Longest word in English: There are many ways to describe the English language, but one word that describes its characteristics best is rich. The English language has become so rich over many centuries ...

Download an MP3 audio interview with the author here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. At the other end of the scale, estimates of the number of words that an average person uses ...