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Taken from the Philippines' Tagalog language, gigil is a "feeling so intense that it gives us the irresistible urge to ...
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Why 'gigil' in the Oxford English Dictionary?
Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much ...
The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages ... or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access.
Yoh: A popular South African interjection, which the OED traced to 1855. It comes from two South African languages: Afrikaans ...
But our results suggest the Inuit snow vocabulary is indeed exceptional. Out of 616 languages, the language with the top ...
Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English ... elements that all somehow work together ...
“All this talk of food might inspire ... Each year, Oxford English Dictionary editors review thousands of new word suggestions, drawn from various sources, including the editors’ own reading ...
New words from around the world have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED ... Several other words from Ireland have also made the list, including ‘spice bag’.
Well, the new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary are here to help ... You can check out the list of all words added in this most recent update on the OED website.
Now that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added 20 Nigerian slangs to its archive, the only logical thing to do is to create more slangs, right?
Now, the latest classic Scots phrase added to the Oxford English Dictionary has been revealed, and this one is associated ...
As part of its March update, the dictionary has included a number of new words from all over the world, including a wealth of words English has borrowed from Irish. One of the new words added is ...