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RNA vaccine and vision board highlight new words for March

March 19, 2021

One year ago, in March 2020, there was a very clear theme linking many of the new words that were … Continued

February 25, 2021

Have you ever seen your pet sploot? You may well have done, even if you didn’t know that there was

January 8, 2021

Why do we need to keep adding new words to the English language? Can’t we just make do with the

November 10, 2020

Over the last several months, when factories, offices, restaurants and other places of social gathering have been (intermittently) shut, people’s

October 23, 2020

Language experts are in broad agreement that English has one of the richest vocabularies of any language. Speakers of English

September 30, 2020

The online version of the Collins Dictionary has just been updated again, with another batch of new words and meanings

August 18, 2020

The online version of the Collins Dictionary has just been updated again, with another batch of words being allowed in

July 6, 2020

After a year when many of the new words coming into the Collins Dictionary have involved measures to ensure public

May 20, 2020

The latest crop of words added to the Collins Dictionary still contains a number of items that can be attributed