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A Scrabble Game of Thrones

April 13, 2015

How would A Game of Thrones characters fare in the world of Scrabble? To celebrate National Scrabble Day and the … Continued

April 10, 2015

Welcome to the primaveral blog post! Blog post and welcome supplied by me, ‘primaveral’ – meaning ‘occurring or pertaining to

April 3, 2015

Happy Easter! Etymology Corner has been a regular feature of the collinsdictionary.com email for many months, but we’ve decided to

April 3, 2015

Like February, March is another month with annual events which dominate internet searches. Earlier this month there was a lot

March 27, 2015

RobertG submits, possibly aptly, “word gap” for our consideration. It refers to the difference between the number of words some

March 19, 2015

Still reeling after St Patrick’s Day this week? HarperImpulse’s Carmel Harrington tells us about her favourite Irish words, along with

March 16, 2015

St Patrick’s Day is here again, and you know what that means. Throughout the United States, people will be dressing

March 15, 2015

In our first Mothering Sunday article, we looked at the difference between British and American ‘Mother’s Day’. Let’s find out

March 14, 2015

Mother’s Day and Mothering Sunday are commonly thought of as being the same thing. How often around this time of