For eight hours a day, five days a week, every week until the heat death of the universe or the day human beings stop ...

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

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

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

Part of what makes conversations between liberals and conservatives difficult in America is lack of agreement on basic terms.

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 ...

The 1944 thriller 'Gaslight' gave rise to a useful new word that describes coercive, toxic relationships in personal life and ...

The Oxford University Press (OUP) on Friday announced the launch of a trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary to make ...

The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster.com ... “From academic journals to social media, these give us a very thorough view of ...

Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a ...

The usual response of grammarians to “all right” is “alright” isn’t a word. But according to my Merriam Webster Dictionary of ...

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