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Published by Foras na Gaeilge, and the product of three years of work, the new dictionary allows users to look up a word or ...

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Many golf terms stretch back centuries, and contested origins are common. Here is a history of some of golf’s most fundamental words.

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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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