That’s when London countered back that she was “pretty big on words” as that’s how she makes a living and Newton—refusing to ...

Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

Can you guess the meaning behind these old-school slang words? A brief history of slang words Slang words have been a part of ...

How do new words like “safe space,” “dogpile,” and “alt-right” make it into the dictionary? Journalist Stefan Fatsis finds ...

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 ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Travis Kelce’s recent reaction during the national anthem has fans drawing a two-types-of-person comparison between him and his Kansas City Chiefs teammate, Patrick Mahomes. In the clip, while Mahomes ...

In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores what words make the official grade. By Dan Piepenbring Dan Piepenbring is the co-author of “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more trustworthy than a random search. Stefan Fatsis is the author of “Unabridged: The ...