The Oxford English Dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as ‘the action or habit of estimating something as worthless’.

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The editor of an updated Indigenous language dictionary says he hopes the resource will help spur more language learning.

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The challenge last time was to come up with a term for “that last bit of dessert or food that people are too polite/afraid to ...

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Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

Despite the archaic look of the word, with its folksy apostrophe, the widespread adoption of “nor’easter” is a relatively recent trend.