English is indisputably the world language today, and how it got to be so is a topic well worth discussing, but in this ...

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Linguists at Aberystwyth University are assembling what they say will be the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

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A groundbreaking dictionary is being created to uncover lost Celtic words, offering a glimpse into ancient history.

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The Oxford University Press, which publishes among other things the Oxford English Dictionary, again has announced its word ...

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