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Pluviophile, rore and celefie: Lucy Mangan takes on your latest word submissions to CollinsDictionary.com

June 25, 2014

Let’s start with hootenanny’s ‘chuff chart‘. No, come back – it’s quite safe for work (though perhaps I’d better also … Continued

June 19, 2014

Word-lovers abound in the Collins Dictionary community, and so we’ve kicked off an interview series with some of the ones

June 16, 2014

According to tradition, upon presentation to The Queen the correct formal address is ‘Your Majesty’ and subsequently ‘Ma’am’. We are

June 12, 2014

Although England are no longer involved in‘a Copa do Mundo 2014’ in Brazil, there are still plenty of reasons to

June 11, 2014

We’re a hotbed of topicality here today! Hold onto your hats-slash-tam-o’shanters for up first is “yesser” and “yessing“, submitted by

June 9, 2014

Are you wearing trunks and thongs or togs and jandals to the beach? Have you put your beers in the

June 4, 2014

Word-lovers abound in the Collins Dictionary community, and so here begins an interview series with some of the ones we’re

June 2, 2014

To grin once meant to scowl, a girl was once a youth of either sex, and “hello” was originally used

May 27, 2014

In just ten years Benny Lewis – seemingly ordinary Irishman turned polyglot and best-selling author – has become fluent in