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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

Add Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica to the growing list of companies suing AI company Perplexity for allegedly ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster has announced its 2021 Word of the Year and, surprise, surprise, it’s not “floccinaucinihilipilification.” No, instead, the winner is the word “vaccine,” which beat out over 470,000 ...

Merriam-Webster has a message for the Trump administration: There is no such thing as an "alternative fact." There are facts, and then there are falsehoods. That memo was at least implied this week ...

At a time when words matter, one dictionary has emerged to school us all: Merriam-Webster. With eyes glued to press briefings and testimonies, people are turning to dictionaries to find out what ...

The current versions of the definition of racism do not tell the full story and this may muddy the waters and limit people’s understanding of what racism is and how it can manifest in our systems and ...

Fabiola Cineas covered race and policy as a reporter for Vox. Before that, she was an editor and writer at Philadelphia magazine, where she covered business, tech, and the local economy. Signifying ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

Merriam-Webster's dictionary is adding a new entry to the definition of the pronoun “they”: a way to refer to a nonbinary individual, one who identifies as neither exclusively male nor female. It’s ...