In 1843, the company that is now Merriam-Webster bought the rights to the 1841 copy of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged.

Context and references mean more than what the almighty dictionary says a word means. Merriam-Webster’s fun little awards touch on an important change in our culture. Since we are often living ...

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In closing, he joins the battle over English usage, as our full review of “The Sense of Style” describes. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage. Merriam-Webster; 989 pages; $29.95 What ...

Merriam-Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, has just chosen "gaslighting" as its word of the year. Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740% in 2022, according to the ...

US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style ... had to guess was "fetus" (spelled "foetus" in British English), before the papers switched the solution, saying they ...

Queen, Robin and Boland, Julie E. 2015. I think your going to like me: Exploring the role of errors in email messages on assessments of potential housemates. Linguistics Vanguard, Vol. 1, Issue. 1, p.

In the] UK – we call it Autumn, from the French word ‘autompne’, and later, the Latin ‘autumnus’,” begins a now-infamous ...

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March 24 is expected to be observed as the Day of Banh Mi (Baguette) in honour of the Vietnamese cuisine both at home and abroad. Merriam-Webster dictionary of the United States has updated its ...

The dictionary ... Webster and Worcester in the United States during the nineteenth century. Blount was followed by Milton's nephew, Edward Phillips, whose New World of Words or a General English ...