Oct. 16 is National Dictionary Day. In this era of SpellCheck, does anybody even use or own a dictionary? We know one man who did: Michael Browning. A former staff writer for The Palm Beach Post, ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) – The words we’ll show you may sound goofy or sloppy, and may make some English teachers cringe, but English is a vital, living language, and these are real words — at least, ...

NPR's Neda Ulaby investigates the etymology of random, a word comedian Spencer Thompson calls "the most misused ... of our generation." It turns... That's So Random: The Evolution Of An Odd Word ...

Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to its dictionary. Merriam-Webster editors study the language and add new words to the dictionary every year based on their usage. The new additions are related to ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize that ...

Look up any word in the dictionary, and there will be an example of that word in a sentence. Author Jez Burrows's book Dictionary Stories expands those sentences into works of fiction. Unless you're a ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ culture,” and now holds a more diminished interest. “Since we have Urban ...