Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

The new book explores the evolution of the dictionary, as well as how we use and create language Unabridged was featured on the Dec. 25 episode of NPR's Book of the Day Fastis' book covers how the ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Following the terror attacks that took place Sept. 11, 2001, people across the country began searching Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for the same word. The ...

Every so often, a new word (or canon of words) gets added to Merriam-Webster's dictionary. Following popular usage and a socially-acceptable, widely circulated and accepted definition, the newest term ...