Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is opening its latest iteration of the Wee Faerie Village, featuring 30 installations, on Saturday. Since 2009, nearly 200,000 visitors have immersed ...

But history is bursting with entertaining synonyms for scarecrow—here are 11 of our favorites, from blencher to moggy. In the ...

As Old English evolved into Middle and then modern English, the word becameaskenand thenask. But the ax pronunciation stuck ...

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Welsh words and phrases that have been "borrowed" by the English language have been included as part of the dictionary's latest new additions. A selection of Welsh words and terms have been added ...

You can now raise a glass to 10 new Welsh words in the Oxford English Dictionary - including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da, which means good health and is said before having a drink ...