Last week the Merriam-Webster dictionary dealt with threats over gender definitions. So this week I interviewed its lexicographer Peter Sokolowski. Peter: “The pandemic brought new definitions ...

The Dictionary had started out with three men, Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–86), the Dean of Westminster Abbey, along with Herbert Coleridge (1830–61) and Frederick Furnivall (1825–1910 ...

13 Words from the First Dictionary That No Longer Exist. By Molly Pennington, PhD. Updated on Jan. 18, 2023. Don't let these obscure words fade away! 1 / 14. Daniel Grill/Getty Images.

Henry Campbell Black, A Law Dictionary. . . . St. Paul, 1910. Black (1860-1927), a Pennsylvania lawyer and legal scholar, wrote this work with the aim of creating the first comprehensive law ...

13 Words from the First Dictionary That No Longer Exist More Than 300 Words Were Just Added to Dictionary.com—Here Are the Ones You Need to Know If You See This 3-Word Phrase in a Text ...