Words

Merriam Webster Names 'They' as Its Word of the Year for 2019

By Melissa Locker

Merriam-Webster Has a Smart Way to Return to Our Birth Years

By Raisa Bruner

A Major Dictionary Has Officially Added Emoji

By Katy Steinmetz

The Dictionary Is Adding An Entry for 'Fake News'

By Katy Steinmetz
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Watch These Game Show Contestants Struggle to Figure Out the World’s Most Obvious Answer

What’s the name of that fictional character that contains the letters “asmido”? At least two people on a game show for literate people could not figure it out.Competitors faced off on the Wheel of Fortune-like...

By Ashley Hoffman

Donald Trump Is Making Dictionaries Great Again

A new poll shows that politics is driving people to question the meaning of words

By Katy Steinmetz

Dictionary.com Adds 'Alt-Right,' 'Slay' and 'Black Lives Matter'

English speakers are the words they use

By Katy Steinmetz

Oxford Dictionary Proves It's Totally With It By Adding 'Squad Goals,' 'Yas' and 'Drunk Text'

Don't forget "cat lady" and "fitspo"

By Megan McCluskey

People Expect Men to Be Struck By Genius—And Women to Work For It

How we describe inventors influences what we think of them—and what they did

By Nate Hopper

The Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever Just Went Online

It's corking good stuff.

By Katy Steinmetz

Merriam-Webster Adds 'FOMO,' 'Mx.' and About 2,000 Other Words

'Trigger warning,' 'hella' and 'athleisure' also made the list

By Katy Steinmetz

5 Words You Use All the Time That Were Once Totally Unacceptable

Like bring-tears-to-an-English-teacher's-eye unacceptable

By Katy Steinmetz

This Pronoun Is the Word of the Year for 2015

Beating out 'ammosexual,' 'on fleek' and 'ghosting'

By Katy Steinmetz

Dictionary.com Adds 'On Fleek,' 'Mx.' and 'Drunk Text'

150 new entries go live on Tuesday

By Katy Steinmetz

This Gender-Neutral Word Could Replace 'Mr.' and 'Ms.'

The gender neutral honorific is in a new batch of words being added to Dictionary.com

By Katy Steinmetz

3 Words to Leave Out in Your Next Email

Eliminating these words can help your email sound more respectful

By Aja Frost / The Muse

This Whimsical New Scrabble Ad Is the Perfect Love Story for Word Nerds

It tells a tale entirely through anagrams

By Samantha Grossman

Merriam-Webster Adds 'Jeggings,' 'NSFW,' and 'Sharing Economy'

The American dictionary added 1,700 new words to its ranks

By Katy Steinmetz

'Lolz' And Thousands Of Other Words Added to Scrabble Dictionary

Quinzhee, an Inuit snow shelter, will get you 29 points

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Calling Cancer a 'Fight' Can Harm Patients

War metaphors can lead to feelings of guilt and failure

By Justin Worland
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