Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated ...

English can be a tricky language, but Merriam-Webster doesn't think it should be. During a Q&A on Twitter Thursday, Merriam-Webster editor Ammon Shea tweeted from the dictionary's official account ...

As the United States moves closer to its 250th birthday next year, a local company continues defining generations and ...

At the risk of showing my age, I will admit that I began school before the advent of spell-check. When I didn't know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in the dictionary. I never ...

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 ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

When you think of America’s Founding Fathers, you probably think of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and others who played crucial roles in winning the country’s independence and ...

October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

Noah Webster’s spelling reforms turned “centre” into “center” and “labour” into “labor”. Some people are pushing for wider adoption of simpler versions of English spellings. Are you okay/ok with ...

"I think the weirdest quirk of English is that we're still arguing about pointless things like whether to split infinitives or end a sentence with a preposition," Merriam-Webster editor Ammon Shea ...