A longtime journalist who lives in AU Park, Fatsis is best known for his book Word Freak, about the world of competitive ...

So I am a word guy. I love words and language. The new book by Stefan Fatsis, “Unabridged - the Thrill (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary,” is exactly my kind of book. When the author was a boy he ...

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Merriam-Webster has added more than 250 words to its dictionary in the last month, including “alt-right” and “sriracha.” Alt-right is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a right-wing, primarily online ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a “life hack” for all you “wordies” out there: If you want to stay abreast of linguistic trends, take a look at the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added to its dictionary. The publisher ...

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 ...