While he may have spelled “codswallop,” a word meaning a lot of nonsense, before spelling “abscess,” the final word in the ...

Merriam-Webster Unabridged and the Oxford English Dictionary each contain about half a million entries, many of which include multiple related meanings. When you add in technical terms that would ...

Inside General Brown Junior-Senior High School on Thursday night, 18 of the top spellers from tri-county school districts took the stage to flex their spelling abilities. The annual Scripps Regional ...

Another interesting fact is that of the 502,000 words in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, approximately 20,000 of them begin with the letter "F" - and yet - only one can claim the title ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names due to capital letters being stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...