Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious ...

Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated ...

Every dictionary has its word of the year now, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reigns supreme among categorisations ...

The word “Yolo” is now an official member of the English language. According to its website, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) approved a new slate of words including terms connected to Roald Dahl ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

There's no one conclusive answer. But that doesn't mean people haven't tried to find one. While most books live by the standard, front-cover-to-back-cover consumption format, dictionaries (and other ...

Rastell’s law dictionary was the first English language dictionary of any type, with its alphabetical arrangement of terms and their definitions. First published in Anglo-Norman French around 1523 as ...

October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

Mark Franke, M.B.A., an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review and its book reviewer, is formerly an associate ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

LONDON, UK — What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions ...

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