After turning a retro children's dictionary into a dark piece of social commentary on his blogspot, one British author is about to ruffle a few politically correct feathers with the publication of his ...

The first, incomplete Navajo-English Dictionary was compiled, in 1958, by Leon Wall, an official in the U.S. government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. Wall, who was in charge of a literacy program on the ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Like most writers and editors, I love words. And like so many of us wishing to maximize our time, I love lists. I’m also a rabid procrastinator. Gradually, over the years, I’ve combined all of these ...