and to mail to the Editor of the Dictionary examples of how particular words were used in those books. The volunteer ‘Readers’ were instructed to write out the words and sentences on small 4 x 6-inch ...

When was the first English dictionary written and who wrote it? How old is the oldest known dictionary? These were the sort of questions third grade students were asked Friday when they were presented ...

Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using language to establish a new national identity.

By October 1984, drought and conflict in a remote part of northern Ethiopia had left millions on the brink of starvation, ...

David is now a dear friend, but we got off to a rocky start. I had invited him and his wife over for dinner, and they were asking questions about my work as a linguist and historian of the English ...

Today is National Dictionary Day. As writers ... about Montana’s rapidly changing identity amid an influx of newcomers in ...

When should you give up? You certainly don’t want to give up too soon on finding your way out of the woods, and call the ski ...

Best of the Week, October 19: tough businesses, poor Q2 results, and foreign skirmishes. In journalism school, we were taught ...

Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a ...

Mourners who comment on his age—he was 88—provoke further ire: “At issue is not how old he was but how loved.” Ms Adichie ...

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen warned in a speech on Thursday that the economic policies being proposed by former ...

(JTA) — A German dictionary entry for the word “Jew ... Sarah Bunin Benor, a professor at Hebrew Union College who writes about Jews and language, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in ...