In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true that the Merriam-Webster dictionary had newly recognized "irregardless" as a word in the English language.

Happy Dictionary Day, word-nerds! This is the official holiday in which we celebrate the birth of Noah Webster, who would be 254 years old if he were still living and breathing on this planet.

His 1806 dictionary was the first American dictionary but his 1828 version, which completely changed how dictionaries were formatted, is his most lasting work. You can browse the 1828 dictionary's ...

A Yale medical student named W.C. Minor worked on both the 1864 edition of Webster's American dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

In the United States, the name Noah Webster (1758-1843) is synonymous with the word dictionary. But it is also synonymous with the idea of America, since his first unabridged American Dictionary ...

Merriam-Webster calls themselves “the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster” ― and YET, their (comparatively glowing) definition of cat reads: “a carnivorous mammal ( Felis catus) long ...

That is what Noah Webster wrote in 1789 at the age of 31, long before he had compiled the nation’s first major dictionary. It is a clarion call for American linguistic unity and independence in ...

Noah Webster's Touch of Madness and the Birth of American English: Part Two Thus, like James Murray, ... "I took more pleasure in editing Webster's Dictionary than in anything else I have done." ...

On this day in 1828, Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language. In preparing his opus, Webster apparently learned more than twenty languages, including Sanskrit and ...

In a previous post, I discussed Noah Webster's compulsive nature. His "touch of madness" -- his obsession with compiling and organizing information of all sorts -- enabled him to devote thirty ...