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Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

So I am a word guy. I love words and language. The new book by Stefan Fatsis, “Unabridged - the Thrill (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary,” is exactly my kind of book. When the author was a boy he ...

Every so often, a new word (or canon of words) gets added to Merriam-Webster's dictionary. Following popular usage and a socially-acceptable, widely circulated and accepted definition, the newest term ...

What exactly is a catch phrase? In his introduction to the first edition of A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, Eric Partridge wisely refused to let himself be drawn into attempting a hard and fast ...

Following the terror attacks that took place Sept. 11, 2001, people across the country began searching Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for the same word. The ...