October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

Today’s lesson looks at the man who wrote the book on American English. Noah Webster’s dictionary is an indispensable tool for success in your academic career – and beyond. NOAH Webster is called the ...

Saturday is National Dictionary Day and what better way to celebrate than to learn a few facts about the resource book? The U.S. celebrates National Dictionary Day on Oct. 16 every year in honor of ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

The Fifth Edition is the final volume created, written and edited in Cleveland. World Publishing -- a maker of bibles -- began in the 1940s to work on a dictionary project, producing a two-volume ...

SPRINGFIELD — Book \ buk \ n: a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together between a front and back cover. Dictionary maker Merriam-Webster isn’t adding the notation “archaic” to that ...

What is the hardest word to define? What’s the longest word in English? These are just some of the questions Merriam-Webster editor Kory Stamper has to field when she tells people about her job. It’s ...

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 Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including ...

David Skinner’s wonderful book, The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, arrives in paperback tomorrow. The following transcript is adapted from ...