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| 28.04.2026 | Native Plant Profile: Toadshade (Trillium sessile) | April 27, 2026
by Katy Gorsuch
Many common plant names have the ability to conjure an evocative image, and those for Trillium sessile are no exception. Commonly known as “toadshade,” other epithets for this plant are “sessile trillium,” “se... |
| 30.03.2026 | Если использование ChatGPT для написания текстов — это обман, то как быть с гострайтерами? | В феврале 2023 года, чуть более чем через год после запуска ChatGPT, Университет Вандербильта разослал своим студентам электронное письмо в связи с трагической стрельбой на территории кампуса Мичиганского государственного университета.
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| 11.02.2026 | Trump keeps reminding us why people support him. It’s the racism. (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LZ Granderson
The president of the United States posted a racist video last week depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. On Friday, the White House dismissed criticism — but the president d... |
| 22.08.2025 | Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court | In theory, the nice thing about having a Supreme Court is that it provides some level of legal certainty. You know how the system works: lower courts make decisions based on law and precedent, parties can appeal, and eventually the highest ... |
| 27.03.2025 | 'Alamak', 'kaya' and 'tapau' among words added to Oxford English Dictionary | Listen
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| 20.02.2025 | How to Enrich Your Vocabulary to Solve Wordle Every Time? | Share
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Solving Wordle in as few guesses as possible is every player’s goal. But sometimes, despite the best efforts, it’s tough to land on the correct word. This could be due to a variety of reasons: a limited vocabul... |
| 08.01.2025 | Oxford Dictionary adds Japa, yahoo boy, adire, others in latest version | The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has included 22 Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update, showcasing the global influence of Nigerian English.
The announcement was made by Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant to t... |
| 07.01.2025 | Mozilla's Orbit: A New Era of Content Summarization in Firefox | In a world overflowing with information, Mozilla has stepped up to the plate. The tech giant recently launched Orbit, a groundbreaking extension for Firefox. This tool harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to summarize web content,... |
| 05.01.2025 | What it's like to go on a K-drama pilgrimage with other hardcore K-drama fans | My parents were both born in North Korea. The Korean War in the 1950s left them and 10 million other Koreans “ee-san gajok” – separated from their families. A move to the United States allowed them to start over and raise four US-born child... |
| 30.04.2024 | Lekker! Afrikaans accent voted WORLD’s 2nd sexiest | Voters chose Afrikaans accent as the 2nd sexiest. Image (adapted) by PxHere
South Africa’s Afrikaans accent has been voted the second sexiest accent in the world.
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| 02.04.2024 | What is Bullion: A form of Investment, Insurance, Diversification, and Currency, and everything else that you need to know now | Share
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Bullion refers to Precious Metal products sold as coins, bars, or rounds and valued based on their precious metal content rather than face value.
Bullion can offer investors protection against inflation and dev... |
| 26.12.2023 | ICYMI: South African words that made the Oxford Dictionary in 2023 | The South African words that were added to the Oxford English Dictionary this year. Picture: OED/File/Fotor.
It’s not uncommon for South African words to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). This year seven new ones cracked the ... |
| 28.11.2023 | Africa: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year - Authentic - Reflects Growing Concerns Over AI's Ability to Deceive and Dehumanize | When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was "authentic," it did so with over a month to go in the calendar year.
Even then, the dictionary publisher was late to the game.
In a lexicographic form of Christ... |
| 05.11.2023 | Чат-бот Илона Маска на базе ИИ Grōk стал доступен «избранной группе» для тестирования | Сначала появился ChatGPT, затем Bard, Claude, а теперь и Grōk. «В некоторых аспектах это лучшее, что сейчас существует», — написал миллиардер.
Его ключевыми отличиями и преимуществами Илон Маск называет «доступ к X в режиме реального времен... |
| 04.11.2023 | Elon Musk is getting ready to launch his first AI model to premium X users. 'Grok' will be 'based' and 'loves sarcasm,' Musk said. | Tech Elon Musk is getting ready to launch his first AI model to premium X users. 'Grok' will be 'based' and 'loves sarcasm,' Musk said.
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| 15.03.2023 | Mabuhay! Google Doodle Features the Filipino ‘Adobo,’ Celebrating its Addition to Oxford’s Dictionary | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 15 March 2023, 10:03 pm
"Mabuhay" is a famous exclamation from the Philippines meaning "long live," and it gives significant meaning to the Filipino's national dish, Adobo, which was recently f... |
| 17.11.2022 | Elon Musk runs 3 companies — and his executive juggling act is the perfect example of how the modern CEO job is broken | Redeem now
What does Elon Musk do all day?
That may seem like a simple question: He works. Musk is the CEO of three companies: SpaceX, Tesla, and, of course, Twitter. He also is involved in numerous other projects including The Boring Compa... |
| 09.02.2021 | Trump’s Answer to the Senate and the Constitutional Stakes in the Pending Trial | According to press reports, former President Donald Trump had to change his impeachment legal team shortly before the deadline for filing his answer to the House’s charge that he sought to “subvert and obstruct the certification” of the pre... |
| 01.02.2020 | 'To eat money' is now an officially recognised English phrase – credited to Nigeria and East Africa | (Getty)
The phrase "to eat money" is now defined in the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Its meaning is the same as in South Africa: embezzlement or theft.
But the OED says the phrase is currently mostly in use in Nigeri... |
| 15.10.2019 | ‘Satoshi’ Now Appears in the Oxford English Dictionary | The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) revealed in an announcement last week that it has added ‘satoshi’ – the smallest unit of a bitcoin – to its word gallery.
The new word, satoshi, is defined in the famous English dictionary as:
the smalles... |
| 21.08.2019 | Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly? | Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know.
All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo to communicate intricacies of r... |
| 07.12.2017 | The Logan Act and its Limits | Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in federal court last week has awoken interest in the long-dormant Logan Act. We argued in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that members of the Trump transition team, including Fl... |
| 27.04.2015 | Oxford University Press Acquires bab.la | Oxford University Press (OUP), the operator of Oxford Dictionaries and the renowned Oxford English Dictionary, acquired the online language portal bab.la, a Hamburg, Germany-based operator of a multilingual dictionary and translation websit... |
| 25.04.2014 | Oxford English Dictionary: Killed And Saved By The Internet | The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) describes itself — with somewhat un-British immodesty — as “the definitive record of the English language.” It’s certainly big: |
| 30.08.2012 | Cambridge University Press Launches An API For Its Dictionaries | Cambridge University Press just launched a new API that is meant to make it easy for developers to add data from a variety of the organization’s dictionaries to their own sites and mobile apps. With the launch of this API, Cambridge Univers... |
| 30.08.2010 | Oxford English Dictionary May Never Be Published Again | The definitive dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may well never see the light of day again, only the light of a monitor. Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, which publishes the OED, t... |
| - | Оксфордский словарь может отказаться от печатной версии в пользу онлайна | Оксфордский словарь может отказаться от печатной версии в пользу онлайна
30 Августа, 2010, 15:44
Максим Кутик
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Третье издание Оксфордского словаря английского языка (Oxford English Dictionary, OED) вероятно не выйдет на бумаге. Об этом... |
| - | Bad English: 70+ типичных ошибок, которые допускают IT-специалисты, общаясь с клиентами на английском | Bad English: 70+ типичных ошибок, которые допускают IT-специалисты, общаясь с клиентами на английском
13 Августа, 2019, 15:01
Майя Яровая
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По данным DOU, только 13% IT-специалистов в Украине знают английский на уровне Advanced. Больше... |
| - | Cryptocurrency This Week: SC To Hear Crypto Case On Nov 19, Libra Elects Board Of Directors And More | On Friday (October 18, 2019), 18 millionth Bitcoin was mined. According to Coinmarketcap, 18,000,637 Bitcoins have been mined till now, with only around 3 Mn remaining.
While Twitter was abuzz with hashtag #3MillionLeft, cryptocurrency enth... |
