October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

Today’s lesson looks at the man who wrote the book on American English. Noah Webster’s dictionary is an indispensable tool for success in your academic career – and beyond. NOAH Webster is called the ...

Saturday is National Dictionary Day and what better way to celebrate than to learn a few facts about the resource book? The U.S. celebrates National Dictionary Day on Oct. 16 every year in honor of ...

The Fifth Edition is the final volume created, written and edited in Cleveland. World Publishing -- a maker of bibles -- began in the 1940s to work on a dictionary project, producing a two-volume ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced in September it has taken the rare step of fully revising and ...

What is the hardest word to define? What’s the longest word in English? These are just some of the questions Merriam-Webster editor Kory Stamper has to field when she tells people about her job. It’s ...

If you look up “microaggression” or “sheeple” or “safe space” on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the entries won’t have a byline—but their author is Stefan Fatsis. A longtime journalist ...

This December 16, 2016 photo illustration taken in Washington, DC. shows the definition for the word "Surreal" in a copy of the Webster's Desktop Dictionary. Donald Trump's upset win in the US ...

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 ...

Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...

David Skinner’s wonderful book, The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, arrives in paperback tomorrow. The following transcript is adapted from ...