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 ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...