What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen

The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

'Spice bag', 'ludraman' and 'class' are among the Irish English words that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its latest update.