Kazzazi explained that his companion Saeid Sabzian selected and compiled English literary words and found the best Persian synonyms for them, the Persian service of ISNA reported. “I was then ...

SYED Muhammad Mirza Muhazzab Lakhnavi is not a much known figure in Urdu’s literary and academic world. So is his 14-volume Urdu-Urdu dictionary, which he compiled single-handedly over a period of ...

WHEN the plan of the “Encyclopædia Biblica” was first announced several years ago, the most favourable anticipations were formed with regard to the new project by all advocates of a moderate and ...

Chekhov once wrote that you need to be a god to distinguish success from failure in life without making a mistake. While none of the 52 writers in C.D. Rose’s mischievous book “The Biographical ...

Concerns over climate change and financial matters have become sufficiently widespread to take words and phrases associated with them into the latest edition of a major dictionary. 25 August 2011 • ...