Most of us have at least one 'stiffrump' in our lives: 18th-century speak for a stubborn grouch. While every office has a ...

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion for creating accessible, relevant content that demystifies the higher-ed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For some readers, a dictionary opens up a world. This is my tribe: all of us dinosaurs from the genus ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Cambridge Dictionary just added more than 6,000 words to its database, but one entry has stolen the spotlight: “Skibidi,” a term born from Gen Alpha meme culture, is now officially recognized. While ...

Cambridge University Press, which publishes The Cambridge Dictionary, was created in 1534 as the world’s first publishing house after receiving a patent from King Henry VIII. What would old Henry ...

“Skibidi”, “tradwife”, “delulu” and other slang terms popularised by social media are among thousands of new words to be added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. Continued remote working has ...

While there are an estimated 7,000 languages and dialects in the world—of which African languages account for one-third—only 10 dominate the internet ecosystem. Less than 2% of Africa’s estimated 2000 ...