Merriam-Webster launched a free, ad-supported iPhone dictionary app in mid-December. The dictionary app can pronounce words by pressing the speaker icon in the red button but did you know that you can ...

The application is available for free download in Apple?s App Store. ?We want to be where our users are,? said Miles Kronby, chief product officer of digital at Merriam-Webster, New York.

Is it any surprise then that the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”? “Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski ...