The Académie Française, founded in the 17th century under Louis XIV, views itself as the guardian of the French language – but a group of linguists says the words the institution chooses to protect or ...

Oxford Dictionary always announces the ‘word of the year.’ Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English ...

Among his wins was his first famous win, the 2015 French-language title, where he claimed that he only knew 'Bonjour' in the ...

A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board ...

The player from New Zealand, Nigel Richards, speaks no Spanish and started memorizing the language's Scrabble word list a ...

The photojournalist Nick Danziger has taken a series of pictures on the theme of the Anglo-French relationship for the Today programme. To mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Nick's ...

As 2024 comes to an end, the words we’ve chosen reflect a year of division, from “polarization” in the U.S. to “brain rot” in ...

(Web Desk) - A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he does not speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title - despite the language ...

Howling winds couldn't stop Notre Dame Cathedral 's heart from beating again. With three resounding knocks on its doors by ...