One of the most remarkable works in the field of English lexicography is The English Pronouncing Dictionary...
Compiled by Daniel Jones (1881-1967) and first published in 1917, the dictionary is still available in updated versions...
NEW YORK: Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word “complicit” as Dictionary...
Do these words sound “ridic” (8 points, ridiculous)? Collins, which publishes the official dictionary for the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association, doesn’t think so...
Some of the additions are new because the concepts they describe are fairly new themselves, like “Facetime” (15 points, to speak with someone over video chat using the Facetime application on a phone)...
KARACHI: When a few years back, research work on the 22-volume Urdu dictionary came to a successful end and its last volume was unveiled, officials of the Urdu Dictionary Board, despite the celebratory atmosphere, knew that the job was not yet finished, as the world of words is an infinite one and so is the scope of technological developments...
Keeping in view the modern global trends in education, the board earlier this year...
“It’s the last word in the dictionary and it’s fun to say and it’s fun to spell,” she told the Post Ledger...
But the Oxford English Dictionary ended with “zythum,” which referred to an ancient Egyptian malt beer...
PESHAWAR: The newly launched Gandhara Hindko Academy has initiated work on the third Hindko dictionary along with several other books and publications...
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QUETTA: The first comprehensive Balochi dictionary was launched here on Sunday...
The Chief Editor of the dictionary is renowned author Mir Jan Mohammad Dashti, a former chairman of the Balochi Academy...
The Data Science Lab (DSL) at Lahore’s Information Technology University has made an application called the Urdu-Hindi Dictionary which can help overcome this language barrier and offers a powerful custom search that will enable you to find the translation of any word in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi or English...
“Due to its popularity, Roman Urdu and Roman Hindi is emerging as a language so the Urdu-Hindi Dictionary has a lot of potential,”...
NEW YORK: Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen on Monday as Dictionary...
Jane Solomon, a linguist-in-residence at Dictionary, said in a recent interview that her site’s choice of “mis” over “dis” was deliberate, intended to serve as a “call to action” to be vigilant in the battle against fake news, flat earthers and anti-vaxxers, among other conduits...
NEW YORK: Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel existential to Dictionary...
The word earned “top of mind awareness” in sustained searches at Dictionary...
KARACHI: Mobile phone and internet services will remain suspended in Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur on Friday [today] for 12 hours on advice of the law enforcement agencies as a security measure for Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH), officials said...
Traffic planThe Karachi traffic police issued a detailed traffic plan for Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) processions suggesting alternative roads to commuters using the routes of the processions...
KARACHI: The provincial government has started to block mobile phone services in Karachi on Wednesday as a security measure on account of Youm-i-Ali tomorrow...
The Sindh government has decided to suspend mobile phone services today from 4pm to 9pm...
KARACHI: The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee has identified 60 places in the sprawling metropolis where incidents of street crimes, particularly snatching of mobile phones, have increased alarmingly, it emerged on Sunday...
It contained names and locations of the 60 areas — in all six Karachi districts — which have been declared ‘hot spots’ for mobile phone snatching and theft...
Police and Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Monday conducted a joint raid in the electronics market situated in Karachi's Saddar area and claimed to have arrested two "facilitators of street criminals," said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mohammad Farooq Awan...
Awan, head of the Anti-Mobile Phone Snatching Cell, said in a press conference that the raiding team detained two shopkeepers and seized multiple devices from...
KARACHI: Snatching of mobile phones and theft of motorbikes registered an increase till Dec 28, 2017 as compared to the same period of the previous year...
The data was prepared by the Karachi police and obtained by Dawn...