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Foras na Gaeilge said the dictionary is aimed at giving a new way to understand and use the Irish language without relying on dictionaries in English or in other languages ...

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The quest to define and canonize new words in American English is as old as the country itself. In the new book "Unabridged: ...

The launch of the first-ever Irish dictionary has been hailed as a ‘historic moment’ for the language. An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge is the first monolingual ‘Irish-Irish’ dictionary, allowing anyone ...

And for those thinking Oxford is rage baiting them by declaring two words to be the word of the year, the publisher explained ...