Language is important in shaping a nation’s identity, culture, and education. Early on, the Americans used many British dictionaries, and most of them were British in their spelling, pronunciation, ...

Robert Siegel talks with John Morse, president and publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It was 200 years ago that Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...

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 ...

A short-lived term unlikely to have use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed "anti-Semite", recently uncovered archival documents show. Celebrated ...