QUETTA: The first-ever comprehensive online dictionary for the Balochi language, titled ‘Labzganj’, has been officially launched and is now accessible to the public. The digital dictionary was developed by the Balochi Academy Quetta under its Natural Language Processing (NLP) initiative, marking a significant milestone in modern Balochi lexicography. ‘Labzganj’ is the most extensive lexical resource […]
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Get swole: Merriam-Webster dictionary bulks up with new entries
Get swole, prepare a bug-out bag, grab a go-cup and maybe you’ll have a better chance of surviving the omnicide. Translation: Hit the gym and bulk up, put a bunch of stuff essential for survival in an easy-to-carry bag, grab a drink for the road, and perhaps you’ll live through a man-made disaster that could […]
‘OMG’: Winston Churchill and the interesting origins of an acronym
Spoiler alert: it’s a lot older than you think! Over fifteen hundred years ago, English developed from a few tribal and local Germanic dialects spoken by a hundred fifty thousand people. English, as a ‘living organism’, has seen countless changes and amendments during its ‘evolutionary phases’. Like any other ‘living organism’, language’s relation to its […]