Compiling a dictionary is a long trek: at every step, a pitfall, a furrow or a rock.” Thus Maurice Druon, the Perpetual ...

When you really look closely at the career of the Bee Gees, and by that we mean the entirety of their career, well, impressive doesn't quite cover it. Anybody who concentrates only on the disco-era ...

Do you remember the first time a book opened your eyes to a world you never imagined? Or the person who introduced you to the ...

Donald Trump's victory may be a political boon for Hungarian leader Viktor Orban but on the economy, Trump is bad news for ...

In American English, grammar experts prefer "toward" over "towards," along with "backward," "forward" and "afterward," though ...

As it turns out, there are two options: fiancé and fiancée. When the terms for an engaged partner evolved away from old-fashioned forms like “my betrothed” or “my intended,” speakers turned to the ...

Especially with texting being such a staple in today’s communication, abbreviations, contractions, and other words that just don’t sound as if they possibly could be considered legitimate have become ...

I wrote a story recently with five f---s in it and when the story was published, sure enough, three of the four letters in ...

and ‘brat summer’ established itself as an aesthetic and a way of life,” the dictionary said. Collins experts monitor their 20-billion-word database to create the annual list of new and notable words ...

Ukraine on Wednesday named three North Korean generals it says are accompanying the Asian nation's troops in Russia. The U.S. and China also clashed at the Security Council on Thursday over ...

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday at a campaign rally that "whether the women like it or not," he will "protect" them, noting that his advisers had instructed him not to use the line ...

On an adjusted basis, Open Text says it earned 93 cents US per diluted share in its latest quarter, down from an adjusted profit of US$1.01 per diluted share a year ago. Analysts on average had ...