The term “meh,” defined as “an expression of indifference or boredom,” entered the Collins English Dictionary in 2008. According to Know Your Meme, the term’s origins trace back to a 1992 “Melrose ...
The completion of the 3,000th page of the late Eliezer Ben Yehuda’s Hebrew Thesaurus was celebrated at a small gathering of the savants and trustees engaged in preparing for publication the ...
Sheffield Phoenix Press have announced a new 834-page volume, enhancing the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (DCH), the standard dictionary of ancient Hebrew edited by David J.A. Clines, Professor ...
Politics, health terms feature in new words added to Hebrew dictionary Terms and phrases borrowed by Hebrew speakers such as capitalism, activism, legitimacy and asymptomatic were given official ...
Hebrew, to be sure, had never died. But the secular Hebrew in which the ancient Jews farmed, traded, governed and wrote poems had been reduced to a language of liturgy, ritual and scholarship. Eliezer ...