Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
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 ...
Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.” ― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words Why is it that a word that you feel so viscerally, doesn’t really ...
In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores what words make the official grade. By Dan Piepenbring Dan Piepenbring is the co-author of “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game’s official dictionary: stan, ...
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Want to look up words in Google Play Books when you're offline? Now you can by grabbing the offline dictionary. Read on to find out how. Nicole Cozma Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, ...
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 ...
When the complete edition of what would become the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1928, it was lauded as a comprehensive collection of the English language, a glossary so vast—and so ...
What goes into writing a dictionary? Merriam-Webster lexicographer Kory Stamper gives a behind-the-scenes look at the process in her new book “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.” Stamper ( ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “The only ones for me are the mad ones,” begins Jack Kerouac’s famous sentence. “The ones who are ...