The Oxford English Dictionary recently added several new words from Indian English.
The Oxford English Dictionary recently added several new words from Indian English.
In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for "woman" include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, biddy, filly.
The latest additions include YOLO, yogalates and fuhgeddaboudit, among others.
The word was actually coined in 1965!
In fact, the centenary edition of the esteemed Concise Oxford English Dictionary now contains some 400 new entries, some of which are a testament to the continuing evolution of language especially in the time of the Internet.
It's time to upgrade your vocabulary too!
He was reviled by critics in his party as a neo-liberal in disguise but till the end, he retained his belief in secularism and the humanity of Communism.
Have you ever been hangry? Or met Aunt Flo?
Tharoor said he learnt of the new word pogonotrophy, which means the growing or cultivation of a beard, from a friend.
Commonly known as 'Face with Tears of Joy', the pictograph is chosen as the word for 2015.
It's high time that they found a mention in the baap of all' dictionaries.
Here's a fun quiz to test your knowledge.
Because English is such a funny language!
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head scratcher -- floccinaucinihilipilification.
The word's that taken the Internet by storm is now the word of the year.
The word geek, once used as a slur to describe a person with unfashionable interests or a social misfit, has now been declared the 'word of the year' by the Collins online dictionary.
Mobile marketing campaigns that can engage, go viral and become a sensation for mobile consumers are now benchmarks for digital marketing.
The word was chosen by an advisory panel of language experts Kritika Agrawal, Poonam Nigam Sahay and Imogen Foxell.
In today's ever-increasing chaotic and demanding lifestyle, stress is bound to affect everyone. How does one cope?
The Mahatma rubs shoulders with nearly 55,000 people in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Do you know the differences between the cheetah and the leopard?
Virat Kohli, who needed 81 runs coming into the match, brought up the landmark in his 205th innings as compared to Tendulkar, who took 259 innings to reach the landmark.
Abhishek Mande Bhot recalls his stint at Mumbai Mirror, the iconic Mumbai daily newpaper, which its owners, the Times of India group, decided on Saturday to convert to a weekly newspaper.
'Pruient', 'esurient', 'parturient' and everything in between.
Stephen Elop, the former Nokia CEO who now runs Microsoft's devices business, showed off the phone in front of thousands at the company's annual employee meeting in Seattle on Monday.
Presenting a list of words from 2015 that we should leave behind.
Vape has been named as the international word of 2014 by the Oxford Dictionaries New Monitor Corpus. But do you what does it mean?
Indian kitchen goes global as 'keema', 'papad' are now included in the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time.
'Great social change brings great linguistic change, and that has never been truer than in this current global crisis.'
Anita Aikara gives you 10 Indian words the West grabbed from us.
'How did we get here?' 'How did utility morph into addiction?' 'Is this what Graham Bell intended?' asks Veenu Sandhu.
Here's your weekly dose of weird, true and funny news from around the world.
'So potent is the menace of false news that scientists have now devised a psychological vaccine to target it,' says Veena Sandhu.
The BJP is methodically turning India into the world's laughing stock, one brainless statement after another.
It was after many years that an Indian cricket team lived up to expectations outside the sub-continent.
It was the year 'anti-national' became the 'it' gaali, and our humble haldi-doodh became the toast of the West's wellness brigade as 'Tumeric Latte.' It was the year 'cash' became unholy and 'fake news' became real. Shuma Raha looks back.
The term binge-watching was the runner up in Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2013. Indians may have come late to the party a little later, but we're making up for lost time, says Shuma Raha.
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