Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word “twerk” to its collection. The addition came after Miley Cyrus’ widely discussed performance at the MTV Video ...

Too bad there isn't an "emoji" that can properly depict the look on grammar gurus' faces when they find out that the word "twerk" has been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO). It would ...

OXFORD, England, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Britain's Oxford University Press announced additions to its online dictionary include "squee," "selfie," "buzzworthy" and "twerk." The university press said the ...

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) By Sandra E. Garcia In a recent online ...

Woman. Noun. An adult human female. That's benign enough of a dictionary definition. Dig deeper into Google's definition of the word "woman," though, and you'll find some let's just say outdated, ...

The 'selfie' is ready for its close-up. On Monday evening, Oxford Dictionaries announced that the Internet-born noun is its international Word of the Year, beating out other of-the-moment verbs like ...