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

During my childhood and adolescence, I saw my father face stereotypes time and time again. My father became a U.S. citizen in ...

"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 ...

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 ...

As you have probably guessed, I am a writer. Between these articles and my novels, I write thousands of words each week. One ...

Durant's response helped "Centel'd" gain official acceptance in the English language. Merriam-Webster Dictionary tweeted that ...

I t’s no secret that the Brits spell a few words differently than us Americans: “color” becomes “colour,” “organize” becomes ...

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

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 ...

A gift, meanwhile, is “something voluntarily transferred … without compensation,” per Merriam-Webster, so there’s no need to call something a “free gift.” Nor do you need to plan in ...

Merriam-Webster has added 200 new words and definitions to its dictionary. The new additions are added based on widespread ...