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

For the first time in more than two decades, there's a new hard-copy update to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It adds more ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Over 5,000 new words added to Merriam-Webster dictionary. From 'rizz' to 'dad ...

Da “Yoopers” up dere in da U.P., Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, have hit it big with inclusion of their nickname in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online database. The ...

In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Authentic cuisine. Authentic ...

Simply said, there is nothing like a good petrichor to make a guy feel on top of the world. That depends, of course, on my ...

Are you now or have you ever been an anti-vaxxer? Chances are high that the answer is yes if you’re using Merriam-Webster’s definition of the term: “a person who opposes vaccination or laws that ...

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David Skinner's The Story of Ain't tells the story of Webster's Third, the most controversial dictionary ever assembled. Here, Skinner tells us the story of the dictionary that was referred to as ...

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 ...