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You share a surprising description of what it’s like working at the Merriam-Webster offices. The nondescript building where people communicate using color-coded cards is not what I pictured at all.
Michael McIntyre; With publication of Webster's 'College 5' dictionary, the book that defined Cleveland editors' work is closed: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff ...
Mirriam-Webster is adding 100 new entries to the Collegiate Dictionary. By The Associated Press Merriam-Webster Inc. has added more than 100 new entries to its new edition of the Collegiate ...
Merriam-Webster, publisher of the ubiquitous dictionary, has named its word of the year for 2023: “authentic.” While Merriam-Webster says in its announcement that word of the year “authentic ...
Webster completed his mighty book of words in Paris in 1825. The dictionary now had 70,000 words, 12,000 of which had never appeared before. In addition to reforming American spelling, he added ...
Noah Webster’s two-volume 'An American Dictionary of the English Language' earned him a place in linguistic history, and a reputation as the foremost lexicographer of American English.
You may want to yeet your old Merriam-Webster book, as the publishing company decided to level up and serve lewks by including 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary.
Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus for Students, Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary and other titles were pulled from schools in Escambia ...
Merriam-Webster has added more than 840 words to its dictionary. If you’re impatient and “hangry,” here’s the “TL;DR”: some of your “faves” might have made the list. The list is ...
After Webster died in 1843, half the Yale faculty continued to work on the dictionary. "Webster didn't quite get etymology right, but everything is fixed by 1864, and that's really the rough draft ...