ONE does not need to be very old — he may be no older in years of discretion than The Atlantic itself — to recall the wordy war which ravaged the country when Webster and Worcester, in quartos which ...

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WE have considered in succession the two recent great lexicographic enterprises undertaken by American scholars, The Century Dictionary and The International Dictionary. Now that A Standard Dictionary ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A monumental dictionary of medieval British Latin has been completed after a century of research and drafting, in a project that spanned the careers of three editors and a small army of contributors.

Richard Ashdowne is the third editor of the dictionary project, which began before the First World War A dictionary has finally been completed after more than a century of accumulating entries. The 17 ...

For years, I schlepped a red hardbound Merriam-Webster’s tome, along with a dogeared Roget’s Thesaurus, to every newsroom cubicle I worked at across the country. In permanent marker I even scrawled ...

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 ...

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