New entries include popular terms such as japa, agbero, eba, 419, and abi, among others. These words reflect the impact of ...

Oxford English Dictionary adds seven new Korean words including ‘dalgona’ and ‘tteokbokki’ - This is the first time since ...

Spoiler, granularity and wasabi are among the new foreign terms chosen by Spanish academics to join the new words in the ...

Words of the year have come up. Merriam-Webster, for example, says polarization. Oxford University Press says brain rot. Brat is the choice of Collins Dictionary ... We have the Japanese otsukaresama.

rikaikun is a Chrome extension that helps you to read Japanese web pages by showing the reading and English definition of Japanese words when you hover over them.

difficult to convey when Japanese texts are translated into languages like English, where there is only one way to say “I”. As with The City and its Uncertain Walls, the various words for “I ...

The 2024 "Words of the Year" were revealed from top dictionaries like Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and Cambridge. Dictionary.com’s top word was "demure," reflecting a surge in ...

Dictionary.com chose demure, used ironically to promote a more dignified pose or attitude on the part of online showoffs. What strikes me – a lexicologist (word analyst) – is that these picks ...

The English language is notoriously difficult to learn for those who don’t grow up speaking it at home. Those of us for whom it is a first language aren’t very good about learning other ones.

Last year's word of the year for the Oxford Dictionary was vax, while words related to vaccines spiked in frequency in 2021 because of Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all ...

A Cabinet notification issued in 1954 called for using the “kunrei” style of romanization when writing Japanese words in English. But the notice also allowed for exceptions with the Hepburn ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...