To describe them as incorrect will be to deny Nigerians their gain of adopting English. Why adopt it if it won't help convey ...

"Temper" is both a noun and a verb. As a noun, it refers to a person's mood or emotional state, often how calm or angry they ...

When Abati recognised the former Ogun State governor, a deafening applause rented the church’s atmosphere.”(Abati’s Mother’s Burial: Amosun, Daniel in Popularity Contest, the Saturday Punch, July 20, ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

Faizan Zaki readied himself at the kitchen table for a challenge. His father scrolled through his online Merriam-Webster subscription in search of Scottish Gaelic words — a notoriously difficult ...

Faizan closed his eyes and puffed his chest. “That did not help at all,” he joked, a moment of levity before the middle ...

Another common and pleasurable use of alliteration is to make insults or terms of abuse, such as lily-livered, first attested ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. Using Google Trends search data from the start of the year ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. ... has made "google" a verb as well as a proper noun.

The Oxford English Dictionary has included a list of “untranslatable” words from other languages — without English ... besides using it as a noun. Besides gigil, other newly added ...

Based: noun, a word used when you want to recognize someone for being themselves and not caring what others think. Bet: noun, another meaning for "OK" Bussin: adjective, Extremely good, excellent.