Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Oct. 15, again handing out personal dictionaries to third grade ...

Dictionary Day is celebrated in the United States on October 16th in honor of Noah Webster’s birthday. Noah Webster was born ...

The style of dress being celebrated at the next Met Gala reveals a complex history of race, class, and identity politics.

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He went on to explain that it was a corrupted portmanteau of the German schlim (meaning “slim”) and the Hebrew mazzal ...