Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update.

He could speak only Irish when he arrived – it would be two years before he gained fluency in English. Before he died, he recalled that, all those years ago, he “had to go to help my mother ...

Spice bag', 'ludraman' and 'class' are among the Irish English words that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. The OED announced a host of new additions as part ...

Many teachers think this is too early. The SEC will be expected to co-ordinate a new important oral exam just before or at the same time as the sixth-year Leaving Cert exams. An oral English exam ...

Hong Kong education authorities will scrap a cash retention incentive and reduce a gratuity for native English-speaking teachers (NETs) to be hired under a new recruitment model in public-sector ...

The often-used pejorative of "racist" surely couldn't be slapped on the Irish in the way it had the English. Surely Ireland, which suffered Elizabeth I's dispossession of Roman Catholics ...

You can check out at any time. More info A number of Irish words have been added into the Oxford English Dictionary, including spice bag, blaa, and class. As part of its March update, the ...

A street named in honour of the British World War Two leader Winston Churchill has become just the second in a council area to be approved for dual Irish-English signage. Residents of Churchill ...

A number of Irish-rooted words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, including morto, spice bag and ludraman. The latest additions to the dictionary show how some “untranslatable ...

Most English-language learners were born in the ... reflective time is especially important now. Anything teachers can do to ease students’ anxiety, such as having a “calm corner” where ...

In this unrelated file photo, children learn English from an assistant language teacher at a day care facility in the Saga Prefecture city of Genaki, in western Japan, on Feb. 13, 2015.