Sad news for those of us with fond memories of long minutes lost in the more arcane histories of English words: the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which a team of 80 lexicographers ...

Twitter isn’t just a social network, it’s now part of the electronic lexicon. Oxford Dictionaries Online has added Twittersphere to its listing of words, along with technology oriented acronyms like ...

Channel 4’s Daytime favourite, Countdown, is changing with the times. Over thirty years since the launch of the long running series, Countdown is replacing the traditional print version of the Oxford ...

Macmillan is following in the footsteps of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by announcing the final print editions of its English dictionaries. From next year, Macmillan Education's range of monolingual ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

After Vice President Joe Biden used the term "malarkey" in a 2012 debate, searches for the word in online dictionaries surged. Now that dictionaries are readily available with a mouse click or finger ...