Imagine me as a little girl in elementary school with braids, bitten fingernails, and eyeglasses in the late 1970s. In fourth ...

Imagine me as a little girl in elementary school with braids, bitten fingernails, and eyeglasses in the late 1970s. In fourth or fifth grade, I sat on the Martin Luther ...

Adam Logan is a quiet fellow. The mathematician from Ottawa has no working phone and no presence on social media. He is a man of many words, however. On Sunday in Ghana, Mr. Logan won the World ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

All these nuggets are drawn from “Unabridged,” in which Stefan Fatsis—a journalist, broadcaster and author—reflects on his love affair with the dictionary. There are gems aplenty about subjects ...

Are dictionaries going the way of dodos, pocket calculators and civil discourse? Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis ...

What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi” is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary.

Mack Meller strolled into the Sedona Taphouse in Palomar with a brown leather briefcase. It had been a while since the 25-year-old joined the weekly gathering of the Lexington Scrabble club. Travel ...

EXCLUSIVE: The CW has renewed Scrabble for a 30-episode second season and has recruited Craig Ferguson (The Late Late Show) to take over as host. Trivial Pursuit featuring emcee LeVar Burton has also ...

Fremantle is betting big on letters, acquiring international production and distribution rights to “Scrabble,” the gameshow adaptation of Hasbro and Mattel’s iconic wordplay board game that has been ...

Fremantle is taking Scrabble around the world. The gameshow version of the world-famous board game recently launched on The CW. Fremantle has taken worldwide production and distribution rights on the ...

There is no better way to recover from Christmas excess than by relaxing with a puzzle or a brainteaser. Wordle is the popular word-game from The New York Times, where five letters make up a new word ...