Context and references mean more than what the almighty dictionary says a word means. Merriam-Webster’s fun little awards touch on an important change in our culture. Since we are often living ...

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 ...

A leading American communist claimed Republicans were using "vague allegations of 'Marxism'" to "divide and divert working ...

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

Barouch, Kasumi Al Asaad, Noor and Alhareky, Muhanad 2019. Clinical relevance of dexterity in oral hygiene. British Dental Journal, Vol. 226, Issue. 5, p. 354. Kong, Xiangmin 2022. Analyzing the ...

In an election year, the Yiddish word 'schlub' provides a handy, if somewhat gendered, way to separate the competent from the ...

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 ...