He’d hoped to chronicle the company’s long-awaited overhaul of its online unabridged dictionary, the first major undertaking ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

The dictionary definition of the word “ate” is a verb that could either mean the past tense of “eat” or what Merriam-Webster just pulled in a new ad. The reference book publishing company, which is ...

Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis describes ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, ...

The fast food behemoth took issue with how the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defined ‘McJob.’ It was not a flattering description. The Oxford English Dictionary ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Newer terms like 'cold brew' and 'farm-to-table' plus slang like 'rizz' are just a few of the new words readers can expected to see added ...

So I am a word guy. I love words and language. The new book by Stefan Fatsis, “Unabridged - the Thrill (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary,” is exactly my kind of book. When the author was a boy he ...

In addition to Perplexity, the Reddit suit targets three more data scraping firms: SerpApi based in Texas; Oxylabs, a ...

World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...

Ford’s message may not be the right one. Saying that protectionism and Trump’s tariff plan is bad is all well and good, but ...