Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

An internal audit questions contracts awarded to a PLDT subsidiary tied to the undersecretary’s former firm, Multisys. Rappler’s own investigation finds inconsistencies in company filings which raise ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

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FREE WI-FI. Residents of Masbate continue to avail free Wi-Fi and charging stations provided by the DICT at its Masbate provincial office on Friday (Sept 26, 2025). DICT provided more Starlink units, ...

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Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

No, you’re not delusional: “Delulu” is now an official word in the Cambridge Dictionary, a popular online language resource. The buzzy shortening of “delusional” is one of 6,212 new entries to the ...