If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

The new book explores the evolution of the dictionary, as well as how we use and create language Unabridged was featured on ...

An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

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

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...