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 ...

Around 180 years on, Dickens’s festive ghost story remains one of the sharpest critiques of money, morality and social ...

The word “convivial” is derived from Late Latin convivialis meaning “pertaining to a feast,” from Latin convivium meaning “a feast,” from convivere “to carouse together, live together,” and from the ...

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 ...

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The word “festoon” is a noun defined as a chain or garland of flowers, leaves or ribbons, hung in a curve as a decoration. It ...

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

In 2002, I was notified that the National Film Registry had added This Is Spinal Tap to its collection of 'culturally, ...