How would a person in the early 1600s call someone an idiot? "Half-wit" is tempting, but it turns out to date from a century-and-a-half later. "Chucklehead" is no good either (1731), but "blockhead" ...

Published in 2009, the Historical Thesaurus to the Oxford English Dictionary contains 800,000 words organized by theme and date. The thesaurus covers words and synonyms from Old English to the present ...

In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for 'woman' include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, ...

I may as well be a biased reviewer of David Crystal's books given that Words in Time and Place is the 30th book by the author to find a place on my special Crystal shelf. The importance of this latest ...

After writing reviews for CrackBerry.com for almost year and a half, one would think that I would have run out of words a long time ago.Well..... I guess I did! Unless you're a wordsmith, a thesaurus ...

IPhone users now have access to the New Oxford American Dictionary right in the palm of their hands. Handmark, a developer and distributor of mobile media, announced an application for iPhone and iPod ...