THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...

English language has "borrowed" words for centuries. But is it now lending more than it's taking, asks Philip Durkin, deputy chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. English speakers may not be ...

Bookmark this story if you frequently play Wordle. It includes a ranking of the most commonly used letters in the English language. How about that Wordle puzzle on May 29? The five-letter answer in ...

Kingsley Ugwuanyi is affiliated with the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and also consults for the Oxford English Dictionary on their Nigerian English project Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when ...