Kelly Clarkson has Alanis Morissette to thank for her interest in words. On the Thursday (Oct. 19) episode of the American Idol alum’s eponymous talk show, she revealed that she purchased her first ...

A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.” Similar complaints abound in ...

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Robert Siegel talks with John Morse, president and publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It was 200 years ago that Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

It weighs in at nearly six pounds, fills more than 1,000 pages, and represents the work of many hands and hearts. The Klallam people’s first dictionary for what was always an unwritten language was ...

The first major English - Irish dictionary in 60 years was launched on October 30, 2020 by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. The new dictionary, produced by Irish language body Foras na Gaeilge ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." ...