October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

5,000 new words have been added to the Twelfth Edition, including cold brew, farm-to-table, rizz, and dad bod. · GlobeNewswire Inc. Springfield, MA, Sept. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the first ...

The Fifth Edition is the final volume created, written and edited in Cleveland. World Publishing -- a maker of bibles -- began in the 1940s to work on a dictionary project, producing a two-volume ...

How do new words like “safe space,” “dogpile,” and “alt-right” make it into the dictionary? Journalist Stefan Fatsis finds ...