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The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

Long before Noah Webster completed his 1828 magnum opus, “An American Dictionary of the English Language,” he published a wildly successful primer called “A Grammatical Institute of the ...

Merriam-Webster has just unveiled its word of the year for 2024. On Monday (December 9), the publisher known for its American Dictionary ... of the Oxford English Dictionary — announced its ...

Languages: English. Email ... while 7 in 10 of Trump voters said the same of Harris. A Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is displayed in a bookstore November 10, 2003.

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics ... a Taylor Swift song. Merriam-Webster is one of the final few English-language dictionary platforms ...

Webster began exercising his power to define the national lexicon with his "Compendious Dictionary of the American Language." It expanded American English with 5,000 new words and was published in ...

A dictionary search for biweekly ... "This is absolutely a problem of English, just generally, we just don't have a good tool for this," Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski said.

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Merriam-Webster Dictionary is indeed a very popular and recognized dictionary for the American English language. Other than audio pronunciations, a vast pool of words, word synonyms, and example ...

To the editor: I possess a copy of Noah Webster’s 1828 dictionary of American English, one of the few dictionaries available when the 14th Amendment [adopted in 1868] was written.