Oct. 16 is National Dictionary Day. In this era of SpellCheck, does anybody even use or own a dictionary? We know one man who did: Michael Browning. A former staff writer for The Palm Beach Post, ...

Logophile's rejoiced this week as Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to its dictionary...."because." Words like air fryer, dad bod, deplatform, fluffernutter, and FTW were among additions to the ...

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, eighth grader Samara St. Louis was cramming for a spelling bee in 2012, when she stumbled upon a word that quickly became her favorite. “It’s the last word in the dictionary ...

NPR's Neda Ulaby investigates the etymology of random, a word comedian Spencer Thompson calls "the most misused ... of our generation." It turns... That's So Random: The Evolution Of An Odd Word ...