Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. First published in 1998 under editor-in-chief Katherine Barber, the dictionary was last ...

The editor of an updated Indigenous language dictionary says he hopes the resource will help spur more language learning.

The great lexicographers understood that a worthy dictionary was descriptive, not prescriptive. It would simply record what we’ve already agreed upon socially You can save this article by registering ...

We see Webster’s Dictionary in every classroom and every household, but we give no thought of the man who actually made this dictionary a reality. Noah Webster grew up in the small colonial town in ...

The Indian government has embarked upon one such kind — and first-of-its-kind — project. A 12-member team put together by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is coming out with an Indian ...

The first dictionaries of the country's myriad ethnic languages without native written forms are rolling off the presses. As the foundations of the Middle Kingdom's Tower of Babel weaken, the ...

A Q&A with Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and author of ’Word By Word,’ on profanity, and the politics of language Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and one of the dictionary ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...