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 ...

There's no one conclusive answer. But that doesn't mean people haven't tried to find one. While most books live by the standard, front-cover-to-back-cover consumption format, dictionaries (and other ...

Dictionary apps are always convenient – whether you are accommodating to life in a new country, learning a new language for kicks, or simply wanting to check the meaning of a few words you didn’t ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

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The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago. By Pippa Bailey The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition ...

A look at the Oxford English Dictionary 2025 "word of the year," viewed by a person old enough to actually own, sort of, a ...