The 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster “Collegiate” dictionary, which will be released on Nov. 18, introduces 5,000 new ...

Merriam-Webster has fully revised its popular “Collegiate” dictionary with over 5,000 new words. They include “petrichor,” ...

There was a time when I couldn’t work/write without my physical, hardcover dictionary at my side. It’s not that I can’t spell, or that my vocabulary is scant. My dictionary has always been a ...

The 35th book of the seventh volume of Dictionary of Estonian Dialects (Eesti murrete sõnaraamat) was recently published. Each volume of the dictionary consists of five books, with each book ...

At least once a month, I realize it’s someone’s birthday and that I have totally forgotten about it. Instead of rushing to the store to pick up a card, I like to have a stack of cards ready for such ...

Three ingredients, one word — Broken Hill's iconic dish is about to enter the mainstream vernacular. The Macquarie Dictionary has announced 'cheeseslaw' will be immortalised in the pages of its 2020 ...

In the early nineteen-sixties, a passel of newspapers and magazines mounted a cultural jihad against a dictionary. The book in question was Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, ...

Merriam-Webster adds 5,000 new words to dictionary - ‘Hard pass,’ ‘adulting’ and ‘cancel culture’ are all included ...