More than 5,000 new words have been added to the 12th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. They include "rizz, ...

Merriam-Webster marks a milestone with the upcoming release of their all new, Collegiate Dictionary, the Twelfth Edition.

NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its popular “Collegiate” dictionary. The company ...

October 16 will mark the 260th birthday of lexicographer Noah Webster, whose dictionary remains the American standard. Because of Webster, we are no longer burdened with the superfluous “u” in words ...

DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: In reading a short biography of Noah Webster, I was impressed by the number of languages he learned (27?) in order to trace the etymology of the words in his dictionaries. Surely ...

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 years ...

Merriam-Webster is doing their part to fight racism in America, or, better put, to fight “racism” in America. As it currently stands, Merriam-Webster’s definition of racism is as follows: “a belief ...

The recent edition of Reader’s Digest had a little item that began: “Why do Brits and Yanks write some words differently? Because for his uniquely American Dictionary, 19th century American ...