“The Irish lexicographer Dinneen, considered in vacuo is, heaven knows, funny enough. He keeps standing on his head, denying ...

Throughout the event, PM Modi and Sharad Pawar were seen engaging in a friendly conversation, highlighting their mutual ...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride in the connection between the RSS and Marathi language at the 98th Akhil ...

In 1857, a small group of intellectuals in London set out to create a dictionary that would document every word in the English language from 1000 AD. This monumental task, spanning 71 years, was ...

An Idea and Its History,” by J. C. D. Clark.

Susie will be ‘In Conversation’ with radio presenter Hannah MacInnes about her first crime novel, Guilty by Definition.

Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson, the English writer and lexicographer, in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and there are many lists of words that their collectors have labelled “the most beautiful words in English.” I have analysed 372 of these and have ...

It was the 18th century lexicographer Samuel Johnson who famously remarked that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ...