The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

For us linguists, the flurry of “word of the year” announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...