The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

One of many interesting facts about words we learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex word in the language ...