The dictionary as commercials
Why Merriam-Webster recycled madeleine as its Word of the Day.
A vocabulary quiz
From Bryan Garner, a “20-question vocabulary exam.”
Words of the day
From Noah Webster: muggish, muggy.
W3, another controversy
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary is again a source of controversy.
Help for DARE
The Dictionary of American Regional English must be feelin’ its keepin’.
Review: The Story of Ain’t
The Story of Ain’t examines what David Skinner says might be “the single greatest language controversy in American history,” the 1961 publication of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, the sequel to the 1934 second-edition Webster’s New International.
“Evening after evening, weekend after weekend, holiday after holiday”
Writing down pronunciations, for forty-three years.
-wise-wise
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary and the suffix -wise.
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, complete
Ninety years in the making, the 21-volume, 28,000-word Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is complete.
Rock the mic
Who was the first to rock the mic? The O.E.D. has the answer.
The OED siphon
"Siphon," a wrong definition
David Foster Wallace’s dictionary
Words circled
Webster's Third New International
The most controversial dictionary ever
Exuviation in progress
Words disappearing from a dictionary
Readers and writers
From a supercomputing glossary