A resource to return to time and again, a guide to understanding Ireland’s past and present, its people and land ...

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Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much ...

A story of perseverance leads from the shores of the Mekong River to the founding of the world’s first and only Hmong ...

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes ...

A childhood thank-you letter written by King James VI of Scotland aged seven is to go on show later this month as part of a new exhibition. In the letter, the first known to have been written by ...

Malaysia’s colourful English stepped into the global linguistic spotlight after words like “alamak” and “tapau” found a home ...

National Burrito Day is celebrated on the first Thursday in April (on April 3 this year). The day celebrates everyone’s ...

Various firsts for AI are inevitably going to emerge, and here's a new one: the world's first newspaper written by an AI. Yes, it's happened, courtesy of an Italian newspaper, Il Foglio ...

Animal rights group Peta has written to the Cambridge Dictionary requesting a change to what they call the "unfair" ...