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 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 ...

Articles are words that come before nouns to give more information about them ... the French When not to use any articleSometimes, no article is needed at all — this is known as the zero article. We ...

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.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has enriched its collection with 20 Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update. Among the newly added entries are widely used terms such as “japa ...

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 ...