Our favorite new words of 2024 The English language is anything but boring—and we’re not saying that just because we’re word ...

I used to work upstairs as an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED ... ‘Give the date of your book (if you can), author, title (short). Give an exact reference, such as seems to you to be the ...

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Selected by Tevi Troy, the author, most recently, of ‘The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief ...

Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using language to establish a new national identity.

At the same time that Collins Books was burnishing its reputation in Seattle, a teenager named Bill Wolfe was looking for ...

October, 2024. Don’t judge! I know it’s Octobermumble mumble (not October 1st)! Doesn’t life sometimes get away from you?

Today Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 200 new words and definitions to its iconic dictionary – maybe not a beach read, but worthy of a For You page and nearly as irresistible as street corn.

Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words is coming to the Canberra Theatre Centre stage and we're ...

The Lord of the Rings, an epic tale of good and evil, was published in 1954, when ‘good’ as a noun was used 0.00416% of the time – a rate almost twice that of 2022. Mr. Tolkien’s worldview was very ...

Educators are wired for hope according to professor Jessica Riddell. She urges educators to teach hope, share it, and imagine ...