Despite the fact that German is a better language than English for compound nouns, the latest addition to German dictionaries has a particularly British ring to it.

June's quarterly update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes a raft of technology-inspired words

The inventor of the Gif file has revealed that the world has been mispronouncing his creation.

Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF has sparked controversy by declaring during an interview that his creation is properly pronounced "Jif".

It is more often associated with a teenager’s first curious sips of alcohol or as a sugary lubricant at school discos up and down the country, so Smirnoff Ice’s presence at a high society wedding at the weekend was a curious one.

Simon Usborne tries out Google Now - and finds the more it knows about you, the smarter it is

Pity the poor folk who invent product names; their lives are about to become very complicated

The White House has been forced to deny that President Barack Obama was involved in granting clearance to the hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, for a recent trip to Cuba.

London officers given courses in dealing with public in Spanish, Polish, Russian, Arabic…

My hosts told me how brilliant the novelist Zoe Heller was at the game. It was calculated to get my competitive juices flowing.

Michael Edwards, who writes in English and French, joins eminent guardians of language

Joshua Lewis argues that many letters are now far more common than they used to be

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"Right-wing" is the only appropriate description for Nigel Farage's party