A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America’ by Beth Macy. B eth Macy’s characterization of life today in her Ohio ...

Unabridged” by Stefan Fatsis is a lively history of dictionaries that also looks at how they reflect and ratify changes in our language.

If you’ve been in the proximity of anyone under the age of 18, you’ve probably heard them unabashedly declare the words “6-7.

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Judge Fred Slaughter made rulings on Tuesday that were mostly favorable to the former Edison High coach, including ordering ...

A longtime journalist who lives in AU Park, Fatsis is best known for his book Word Freak, about the world of competitive ...

Are dictionaries going the way of dodos, pocket calculators and civil discourse? Some dictionaries are still printed but, ...

Merriam-Webster defines the state of being au courant as that in which one is “keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments” of a particular matter ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

The dictionary definition of the word “ate” is a verb that could either mean the past tense of “eat” or what Merriam-Webster just pulled in a new ad. The reference book publishing company, which is ...

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 ...