Can you make sense of DIROA? Or for that matter GAHABND? If you've managed to peg the words 'radio' and 'handbag' above, you'll find the questions in this quiz a breeze! In the following pages, we ...

Choose the option that is closest in meaning to the main word in the English vocabulary quiz below. Often, while reading a book or talking to someone, we come across new words that surprise us with ...

The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...

In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German. Pour yourself a cold one and take the quiz. Prost! (That’s “cheers” in ...

More than 170,000 words are currently used in the English language, so it’s almost impossible to know them all. We all like to impress our friends, family and teachers with our knowledge of obscure ...

QUIZ: There are hundreds of tricky words within the English language but do you know the meanings of all of them? These eight wacky words may stump you. A new online quiz asks people whether or not ...

WE ALL like to think we have a way with words, but at times the English language can really muddle with your head. With its weird rules and the even weirder exceptions to them, it can be tricky to ...

Consider yourself an expert in the English language? Thanks to language and etymology blog ‘Haggard Hawks’, you now have the chance to prove it. The experts behind the book Haggard Hawks and Paltry ...

Beatriz Lucille Whitford-Rodriguez, 14, of Chicago, spells her word in the semifinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in National Harbor, Md. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) The ...

The Oxford English Dictionary is the unrivalled reference to the meaning, history and pronunciation of the English language. It defines over half a million words, and lists 2.5 million quotations to ...

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In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper. Christie’s International Ltd., based in London, is about to start operations in New York ...