Willoughby — This name combines the Old English "wilig," meaning "willow," and the Old Norse "bȳ," meaning "farmstead, ...

THIS week, I thought I would stray into lighter, wittier territory – the sort of reflection meant to raise a smile, not your blood pressure – before the serious business of the day resumes.

The Oxford English Dictionary has added nine new Singlish expressions, including "boleh", "jialat", and "ice kacang" in its ...

Singlish has been making its way into the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for years, and don’t play play – the streak is still going strong in 2026. On March 24, the OED officially added 9 new ...

SINGAPORE – “We’ve been together for agak-agak four years, but I’m still waiting for him to ask me to BTO, really jialat.” Reading the above sentence and deciphering its meaning should be a piece of ...

We don’t need to play a gotcha game dressed up as a grammar rule. There are clearly dangling modifiers that would bother no ...

There's power in a good phrase, especially when it acts as a social leveller in our increasingly anonymised cities.

No one knew it at the time, but 2014 - more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment - marked the peak of a ...

A text, a joke, and a foolish quest to answer the unanswerable: Is there an origin story for the word ‘Masshole?’ ...

Parashuram Jayanti 2026 is celebrated alongside Akshaya Tritiya. Know tithi, rituals, puja timings and significance of Lord ...

Sometimes you just need to recombobulate. That word isn't in the dictionary, but it is on a beloved sign at Milwaukee's ...

It took a while for the Oscars to honour an actor's work in a non-English film, just as it's taking a while for the film ...