Sad news for those of us with fond memories of long minutes lost in the more arcane histories of English words: the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which a team of 80 lexicographers ...

There was a time when our relationship with the dictionary was strictly one-way. It had the information we needed, and we took from it, giving nothing in return. Things have changed. Now, not only can ...

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 ...

You may be surprised to learn that Word does not come with a dictionary even though it has a thesaurus. Microsoft configured Word so that people can choose their own dictionaries. If you have an ...

In September, the announcement of the newest words added to the Oxford English Dictionary made headlines (as it always does). The list included “hoverboard” and “concelebrated” (“of a mass: officiated ...