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 ...
When was the first English dictionary written and who wrote it? How old is the oldest known dictionary? These were the sort of questions third grade students were asked Friday when they were presented ...
"The one constant of a vibrant living language is change," Gregory Barlow, president of Merriam-Webster, explained in the press release. "We continuously encounter new ways of describing the world ...