The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary has recently been published online by the University of York. The dictionary collects together more than 4,000 Yorkshire terms and is the life-long work of historian Dr George Redmonds, who died aged 82 in August 2018.
The English language has spread around the world so dramatically since the Second World War that there are now more non-native English speakers than native English speakers. The number of English speakers has risen from 400 million to 1.5 billion
A U.S. academic has declared that the board game Scrabble is now too easy after changes in the English language have made the value of the letters meaningless. American academic Dr. Joshua Lewis suggests that the letter values need to