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 ...

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Speeding the availability of language resources for endangered languages. Tools such as this have the power to shift how we think about endangered languages. Rather than perceiving them as being ...

Merriam-Webster lists the etymology of “goodbye” as an “alteration of God be with you.” It took until around 1700 for the ...

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