October 16 marks the 260th birth anniversary of lexicographer Noah Webster, whose dictionary remains the American standard. It’s because of Webster that Americans no longer have the superfluous “u” in ...

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 ...

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 ...

MASON CITY — The word “definitely” may be one of the reasons Dictionary Day is so important. That’s because so many of us get tripped up trying to spell it. “I usually get ‘defiantly,’ which is almost ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (TND) — Students have been known to take vocabulary tests but not to learn nearly 700 words at once. That's what the folks at Merriam-Webster did this month. They added 690 new ...

In late November 2022, Merriam-Webster's dictionary announced it had chosen "gaslighting" as its word of the year. In the official announcement, the organization stated: "In this age of misinformation ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Showing what would happen if your computer's spell check became sentient and snarkily judgmental, whoever runs Merriam-Webster's Twitter ...

Sure, the dictionary's a resource designed to give an accurate accounting of words in all their many shapes and sizes, their definitions and their spellings. But whatever finality a dictionary's thick ...