Opinion: Mayor Aftab Pureval has enjoyed a City Council composed almost entirely of partisan "yes" men and women who ...

Dictionary.com announces a word of the year each year, one that captures pivotal moments in pop culture and literature. Called “a linguistic time capsule,” Dictionary.com’s word of the year reflects ...

Merriam-Webster defines the state of being au courant as that in which one is “keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments” of a particular matter ...

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

The U.S. Mint is discontinuing the Lincoln Penny, a staple of the American economy since 1909, due to the high cost of ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." ...

The fast food behemoth took issue with how the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defined ‘McJob.’ It was not a flattering description. The Oxford English Dictionary ...

Noah Webster had a lasting impact on language in the United States. Before publishing his An American Dictionary of the English Language, he produced a series of spelling books that dominated American ...

Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis describes ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds ...