In 1843, the company that is now Merriam-Webster bought the rights to the 1841 copy of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged.

US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style ... had to guess was "fetus" (spelled "foetus" in British English), before the papers switched the solution, saying they ...

Merriam-Webster has named "they" its word of the year. The US dictionary also recently added ... study and commentary in recent years. "English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun ...

Speakers of English are adept at creating new terms by stringing together parts of other words. This is often accomplished by ...

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary describes the term tar baby as “sometimes offensive,” while the Oxford English Dictionary lists it as “derogatory and offensive” term for a “black person.” As Br'er Rabbit ...

AJ McLean doesn't seem to understand the hype around slang words like "rizz," and he clearly wants no part of it. The ...

Merriam-Webster has been in the business of defining the English language since 1831. It wasn’t until 2002 that it became a well-trusted website. The first version of the dictionary was the ...

I couldn’t think of a writer, assuming he was the writer of all his plays, who has coined more words than William Shakespeare ...

Being a Forty-something myself, I’ve recently been reflecting on “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” The song is actually about a real ...

In closing, he joins the battle over English usage, as our full review of “The Sense of Style” describes. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage. Merriam-Webster; 989 pages; $29.95 What ...