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

It took about 70 years for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to be completed. Conceived in 1857, the project ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

I would venture that this is how many people think about print dictionaries: as battered, well-traveled relics that they like ...

Slang terms like "rage bait" and "6 7" reflect youth culture, spreading rapidly via social media platforms like TikTok.

Analysis shows obscure and barely-used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time ...

Redact” once meant to edit. But around the middle of the 20th century, it began to refer to one particular kind of editing.

A small word links a book about Ballyhoura, broth bits in Croom, and a scribble on the inside cover of a 70-year-old ...