The fact that trial by jury can, after 800 years, be swept away by the votes of Scottish MPs is a powerful argument for English independence. I submit this as a paraphrase of a post on X by George ...

An address commission affects vessel owners and charterers. Learn its definition, benefits, and the implication of a shipment being "free of charter." ...

Along the same lines, you may have heard the term "Irish goodbye" being thrown around. An Irish goodbye is another term for an Irish exit. The Irish goodbye meaning is still leaving a party early ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

Blame the Epstein files or even — gulp — newspaper reporters, but the word “tranche” seems to be having a big moment. With roots in the Renaissance and a long history of u ...

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

In the Dictionary.com entry, under American English, the noun “Swiftie” is defined as “a fan of the music of Taylor Swift.” ...

Swifties, it's your era now. Fans of Taylor Swift are officially part of the English language, after the latest update from ...

The concise editions of the Oxford English Dictionary are seen on display at a bookstore in London on Jan. 16, 2026. (Mainichi/Hojin Fukunaga) Eleven English words of Japanese origin were added to the ...

Language is a living thing. With a recent deluge of international travelers to Japan and plenty more aspirants, it may be no surprise that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has once more inducted a ...

Objective As ‘critical illness’ and ‘critical care’ lack consensus definitions, this study aimed to explore how the concepts’ are used, describe their defining attributes, and propose potential ...