The words we say can influence how others receive our message and how they perceive us. Author Stefan Fatsis explores the ...

The word “ennui” means a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. It is a ...

Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis describes ...

The dictionary has found its utility in the desire to attach meaning to each new word. But in the digital age, the dictionary ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, ...

How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or ...

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

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

Microsoft adds Bing Visual Search to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool, allowing you to get information about anything you see on ...

Swifties have been pulling out their dictionaries at least since Taylor Swift's 2020 surprise albums, which came with some equally surprising word choices. After all, Taylor wants auroras and sad ...

You can turn off autocorrect on Windows by toggling off two features in the "Typing" menu in Settings.

US President Donald Trump said he loves “tariffs” and it is the “most beautiful” and his favourite word in the English dictionary, on Tuesday, September 30. His continued assertion comes even as ...