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Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus for Students, Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary and other titles were pulled from schools in Escambia ...
The people from Merriam-Webster — the “most trustworthy dictionary and thesaurus of American English” — trolled Twitter on Friday by officially declaring that the hot dog is, in fact, a ...
As part of the review process, Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus for Students, Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary and 1,600 other titles were removed, according to the school district in the ...
Merriam-Webster is revising its most authoritative tome for the digital age. But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like? (And do we even need one?) ...
The wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster's dictionary have harnessed social media to deliver definitions and context to words that matter now.
That people were turning to Merriam-Webster to verify new vocabulary could be read as a sign of progress. After all, 2022's word of the year belied a distrust of authority: gaslighting.
In 1806, Webster published “A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language,” the first important dictionary in the United States.
Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is one that saw an increase in searches this year – in a world where it's sometimes hard to tell what is fake and what is real online.
Webster's house was moved to Greenfield Village, Mich. Comfortably back in New Haven, surrounded by his alma mater, Webster worked on his dictionary, then he started getting grander ideas.