FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...

Scholasticide and domicide are among several new terms that has been used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza.

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

The Merriam-Webster dictionary chose "menorah" as its Word ... Merriam-Webster noted, but English speakers use the word menorah, as well.

The choices, and the sometimes stark differences between them, provide a glimpse into how different regions’ experienced the ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all in on artificial intelligence, and may soon go public at a valuation of ...

The 1960s were a particularly fruitful time for words abundant in our lexicon today. Scientific advancements gave rise to new ...

“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued. “We’ve had ...

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, gingerbread gets its name ... Mistletoe originally stemmed from the old English words "Mistel" and "Tan," which meant "dung twig." ...

Britannica Group, as the company is now known, runs websites, including Britannica.com and the online Merriam-Webster dictionary ... A.I. in the pipeline: an English-language tutoring software ...

“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers to the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially ...