If you found yourself baffled by the police jargon in last night’s episode of Line Of Duty then don’t fret, you are certainly not alone. Viewers took to Twitter to share their confusion as they struggled to keep up with a script peppered with dozens of acronym and abbreviations, some of which were integral to … Read more
Duden (pictured), which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the masculine form of nouns to be used to describe whole professions [Stock image] Germany‘s most influential dictionary has stirred debate by issuing guidance to make the language more gender neutral. Duden, which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the … Read more
Some 28 years have passed since I took my seat, rigid with fear, in Countdown’s Dictionary Corner for the first time and waited for the TV cameras to turn to me. A newly fledged dictionary editor at Oxford University Press, I was a reluctant addition to the hit Channel 4 words and numbers game show, … Read more