The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1888; it was missing the word “bondmaid.” It took 50 years to include it.

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, ...

The words we say can influence how others receive our message and how they perceive us. Author Stefan Fatsis explores the ...

The word belie originates from the Old English word ‘belēogan’, which meant to deceive by lying. This is a combination of the ...

The word dint originates from the Old English word ‘dynt’, meaning a blow or a strike, and is the etymological root of the ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

"Is the English language too difficult for you?” said a Homeland Security official to TIME when asked its use of the word ...

In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores how words become enshrined in the dictionary and whether the book maker can keep up with the evolution of language.

A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.” Similar complaints abound in the internet age.

They are calling it the AI glossary, and it includes words translated to isiZulu, IsiXhosa and Afrikaans, from English.

The term "censorship" comes from The Latin, censere "to give as one's opinion, to assess." The Roman censors were magistrates who took the census count and served as assessors and inspectors of morals ...