Jorge Luis Borges once demeaned the dictionary, writing, “It is often forgotten that [dictionaries] are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." It's a ...

Dictionary writing is “a kind of writing that wants to go unnoticed,” says Joseph M. Romero, an assistant professor of classics at Mary Washington College. “It may disconcert the reader to learn that ...

NEW HAVEN -- Noah Webster made his fortune in New York, but he created his legend in New Haven. A Yale graduate, Webster had published the nation's first daily newspaper and written a spelling book, ...

Or would you have to look up the word adamantine? That word appeared in a column in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd, sizing up Nikki Haley’s campaign against Donald Trump. Dowd wrote that Haley ...

“The only place where success comes before work is dictionary,” someone has said. But the hard work of writing an Urdu dictionary, either monolingual or bilingual, is something that is hardly, if ever ...