People often introduce a definition of a word by saying, “Webster says . . . “ The truth is, Noah Webster himself — the founder of American lexicography, or dictionary-making — hasn’t actually “said” ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

October 16 will mark the 260th birthday of lexicographer Noah Webster, whose dictionary remains the American standard. Because of Webster, we are no longer burdened with the superfluous “u” in words ...

The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” The human editors of the publisher said that the slop ...

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them ...

David Skinner's The Story of Ain't tells the story of Webster's Third, the most controversial dictionary ever assembled. Here, Skinner tells us the story of the dictionary that was referred to as ...

A big legal fight is currently underway in the AI sector as the world's biggest dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, and ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...