Dozens of nature words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in order to make room for modern technology-related words. The English language, like most living languages, is constantly ...
You can’t call someone a frutescent snollygoster anymore—at least not officially. Those words have been deleted from the dictionary, so you’ll have to come up with alternate terms to describe a ...
It took about 70 years for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to be completed. Conceived in 1857, the project ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Have you ever looked for a word to describe an everyday awkward, embarrassing or just plain funny situation when the dictionary won't do? DailyCandy.com, a web site that provides ...
The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...