Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

"I think the weirdest quirk of English is that we're still arguing about pointless things like whether to split infinitives or end a sentence with a preposition," Merriam-Webster editor Ammon Shea ...

The dictionary also incorporates words reflecting recent cultural shifts, such as "doomscroll" and "WFH" from the pandemic.

At the risk of showing my age, I will admit that I began school before the advent of spell-check. When I didn't know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in the dictionary. I never ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (TND) — Students have been known to take vocabulary tests but not to learn nearly 700 words at once. That's what the folks at Merriam-Webster did this month. They added 690 new ...

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

When you think of America’s Founding Fathers, you probably think of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and others who played crucial roles in winning the country’s independence and ...

Nglish is an English learning app created by Merriam-Webster. (Submitted by Merriam-Webster) SPRINGFIELD — Nglish, an English learning app created by Merriam-Webster, Inc., was named the best ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

Are you smarter than a spelling bee contestant? If you can spell these words, you might be. Merriam-Webster has announced the hardest words to spell in the English language ahead of the 92nd annual ...