One possible explanation comes with the slang term for food. Spud was used to describe a potato as far back as the 1800s. The ...

Have you ever read a children's book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn't really tell a story ...

The above feature summarizes some of the main data from the book, focusing on the 14 sources ... new and revised entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. Using the date buttons at the top of ...

The answer is also the title to a new book by Merriam ... anyone setting out to be a dictionary editor would benefit from having a firm grounding in grammar and etymology, it's not a requirement ...

Jimmy Failla’s book "Cancel Culture Dictionary" hit stores on Tuesday, putting a spotlight on the outrage era plaguing society. "Cancel Culture is the only movement where the biggest winners are ...

THE DICTIONARY WARS The American Fight Over the ... meticulous scholar familiar with the latest advances in etymology and philology. His reputation grew as Webster’s waned.

I wonder if I could cheat and go for a genre rather than an individual book? Maybe the literary editor will be too busy to notice. It has to be a dictionary: any dictionary. From as early as I can ...

An Elden Ring veteran has constructed an ‘Etymology Dictionary’ featuring every name in FromSoftware’s massive RPG, delving into their origins. ‘The Elden Ring Etymology Document’ is a ...

A Florida school district has literally banned the dictionary in an effort to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) book-banning law. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ ...

After reading Simon Winchester's Chesterman's book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, a non-fiction account of making of the Oxford English Dictionary, she began to have an inkling of how words entered ...