Webster, the word bellwether means a leader and an indicator of trends. Bellwether on Beaver Street features the latest ...

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Recently, the good folks at America’s leading dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, updated their pages by adding over 1,000 new words. This is important business since the last update took ...

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Is it any surprise then that the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”? “Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski ...

Words skip across borders duty-free ... The red-white-and-blue American dictionary Merriam-Webster lays out the etymology, and it tells a story of slippery transactions, linguistic and financial ...

It may sound like the plot of a Hollywood movie, but it’s not. The Moon has been added to the list of heritage sites under threat in 2025. But what do we know? Why is this happening? According to ...

US President Joe Biden opined Friday without legal effect that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which ensures equal rights on the basis of sex, has been added to the Constitution as the 28th ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. hiring picked up unexpectedly in December as employers added a strong 256,000 jobs, another sign of the economy’s resilience in the face of high interest rates.

The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with 20 Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update. The newly added entries include popular terms like “japa,” “agbero ...