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 ...
Food loving Scrabble players, your time has come. Merriam-Webster just added over 200 words to its dictionary, and several of them are common American food terms. “Our lexicographers monitor a ...
According to the dictionary, cuffing season usually begins in October and is for singles who want to spend the colder months cuddled up to someone warm. It's said to end around Valentine's Day the ...
"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 ...