"I think the weirdest quirk of English is that we're still arguing about pointless things like whether to split infinitives or end a sentence with a preposition," Merriam-Webster editor Ammon Shea ...

At the risk of showing my age, I will admit that I began school before the advent of spell-check. When I didn't know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in the dictionary. I never ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of America’s Founding Fathers, you probably think of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and others who played crucial roles in winning the country’s independence and ...

ONLINE dictionaries may have hit the sales of printed ones in the past few years but their advent, along with Personal Digital Assistant dictionaries, have made the role of a lexicographer more ...

At the risk of showing my age, I will admit that I began school before the advent of spell-check. When I didn’t know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in the dictionary. I never ...