U.S. Rep. Richard Neal recently bought Merriam-Webster dictionaries for all 435 members of the U.S. House. In doing so, the Democrat from Springfield participated in a years-old practice on Capitol ...

Peanut and Tommee Tippee Launch Global Movement to Put "Matrescence" in the Dictionary, and on the Cultural Map ...

As America approaches its 250th birthday, the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society is highlighting the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced in September it has taken the rare step of fully revising and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds ...

Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster took the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds more than 5,000 new words, including ...

The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana ...

The 12th edition of the "Collegiate Dictionary" will be available in November. Dictionaries are displayed for sale Sept. 18 at Powell's Books in Portland, Ore. Farm-to-table is among the new words in ...

This image released by Merriam-Webster shows a page from the 12th edition of the "Collegiate Dictionary." (Merriam-Webster via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday ...