"Spice bag", "Class", and "Blaa" are just some of the Irish words and terms that have been added to the Oxford English ...

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I grew up in a secular Jewish household. But I always wondered how the Torah had continued to captivate people for thousands ...

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Tucked away in Columbus, Ohio—a city that’s about as far from ocean waves as you can get—sits a seafood sanctuary that will ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for ...

Taken from the Philippines' Tagalog language, gigil is a "feeling so intense that it gives us the irresistible urge to ...

Filipino words like "gigil" and "kababayan" have been included in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Eight Irish English words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, the principal historical English dictionary.