"The internet is an amazing medium for languages," he told BBC News. "Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly." ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Cambridge University Press, which publishes The Cambridge Dictionary, was created in 1534 as the world’s first publishing house after receiving a patent from King Henry VIII. What would old Henry ...