Have you ever read a children's book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn't really tell a story like all ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

It’s not every day, even in New York City, that Yiddish enthusiasts can see a live, fully-staged performance of an opera about Yiddish. But on September 18 and 21, “The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish ...

In June, as Black Lives Matter protests were in full swing after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a dictionary definition made headlines. The definition that drew so much ...

Amid the unstoppable shift online, these printed treasuries offer multiple pleasures — and freedom from the endless scroll ...

Cambridge Dictionary has added thousands of words and phrases over the past 12 months, including ones popularized by social ...

A dictionary attack is a brute-force technique where attackers run through common words and phrases, such as those from a dictionary, to guess passwords. The fact people often use simple, ...

In the summer of 1987, movie audiences first met Robocop in the science fiction classic about violence and corrupt corporate power in a future, dystopian Detroit. But the title word is much older than ...

To build their visual dictionary, the researchers examined two hours of video footage each of 25 wild octopuses in a variety ...