Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...

As more go online, Oxford English Dictionary may go digital-only. Aug. 31, 2010— -- Is the printed dictionary on its way to being the latest casualty of the Internet age? Rightly or wrongly, the ...

“Clatterdevengeance” is Jonathon Green’s favorite slang word, and he is in a position to have one. Green, known on Twitter as Mister Slang, is the world’s foremost English slang lexicographer and the ...

Dictionaries reward you for paying attention, both to the things you consume and to your own curiosity. By Rachel del Valle I can’t remember how old I was when I first learned the words denotation ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary recently announced its expansion of 1,700 words. The recent updates reflect commonly looked-up words; many technology and web-related terms hitting this year’s list.

Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary. The book is the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, and the general editor is Anne Soukhanov. She's been ...

The internet dictionary: what does kys mean? With its resemblance to “kiss”, it looks almost sweet – but it can cause genuine distress. By Amelia Tait The word “die” has the same number of letters.