A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.” Similar complaints abound in ...

Susie Dent’s winning novel follows a team of lexicographers investigating cryptic letters related to a long-ago disappearance ...

After the Supreme Court cleared the way for federal agents to treat the widely spoken language as grounds for suspicion, some ...

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A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region. The longest word is “carry-go-bring-come." It dates from 1825 and means gossip ...

Manuel Da Luz Gonçalves, founder and owner of Mili Mila Incorporated in Roxbury and author of two Cabo Verdean Creole ...

Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century ...

Dictionary.com, which boasts 70 million monthly users, on Tuesday announced its biggest ever revision, with more than 15,000 words updated, many to reflect the social upheaval and racial unrest of ...

Migration- for study, work, or better life- has become a defining part of modern life. As families build new homes across ...

Guards can make or break a team in the NBA. Here are our experts' picks for the top 10 guards in the league heading into the ...