Creators of the world’s most trusted dictionaries, Oxford University Press, have been busy updating their children’s ...

From cabbies to the Czech Republic ...

Many of us oldsters remember being taught in school that there are eight parts of speech, but I find that, when I try to remember what I was taught, I usually come up with nine.  When I look at ...

It often happens to novelists, and maybe other writers too, that they only discover what they’ve written long after they’ve finished writing it.

Behind Moira’s “splendiferous” turns of phrase lay a treasure hunt that sent devoted fans scrambling for rare, out-of-print books and eventually inspired a community-sourced dictionary bearing her ...