In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the ...

The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a ...

Japan and South Korea have been drumming up attention on the world stage – and not just with their recent Nara summit on security and economic cooperation, which included their leaders engaging in a ...

There is a demo instance of Jamdict-web - Japanese Reading Assistant online if you just want to try it out: ...

A version of this story appeared in the weekly Newsletter from the Editor. Sign up here. It was just after 5:00 a.m., and I was wide-awake in a hotel in Rome. Jet lag, certainly. I grabbed my phone, ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

In his end of year letter, Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group chief executive officer David Shelley revealed that the publisher would be pledging £200,000 in 2026 to fund 200 Book Nooks across the UK ...

Rage bait has been named the official Oxford word of 2025 after language experts noticed its usage has tripled this year. Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, said ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

Dictionary.com has deemed the two-number phrase, “6-7” Word of the Year for 2025, and for those not up to speed on current slang, at least they have a place to look it up. The numbers together are ...