The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1888; it was missing the word “bondmaid.” It took 50 years to include it.

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when it releases its first new edition in more than 20 years.

Merriam-Webster’s website receives about a billion visits a year, making the company a word digital leader as well, Barlow said. Over the last 10 years, revenue overall has grown by nearly 500 per ...

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 announced in September it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

There may also be a reason why Merriam-Webster went so hard with their ad. The company, as well as Encyclopedia Britannica, ...

In the new book "Born Lucky," NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert writes about his experience on the autism spectrum while not knowing about his diagnosis until college. Vittert joins "The Takeout" to ...

Merriam-Webster announced this week that it is publishing a new edition of its iconic Collegiate Dictionary. It's the first ...