On the first floor are business offices and company artifacts. A glass case down an echoey hallway contains Noah Webster’s first lexicographic effort, A Compendious Dictionary of the English ...

Last week the Merriam-Webster dictionary dealt with threats over gender definitions. So this week I interviewed its lexicographer Peter Sokolowski.

Merriam-Webster says its dictionary now includes about 470,000 entries. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky; ...

"Although clearly a desirable quality, authentic is hard to define and subject to debate — two reasons it sends many people to the dictionary," Merriam-Webster said in its release.Look-ups for ...