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

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

A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.” Similar complaints abound in ...

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

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with ...

Bad Bunny is no stranger to making history. Since he arrived on the music scene in 2016, the Latin superstar continues to break records and test the boundaries of the industry in every direction. Most ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are among the latest to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Chollagh", ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognised on Wednesday. The longest of the words is ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

Eleven New Zealand English and te reo Māori words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Caleb Jones / AP Eleven New Zealand English and te reo Māori words have been ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

What the new Cambridge Dictionary words tell us about the disturbing state of the world right now - IN FOCUS: Going by ...