Merriam-Webster has revealed its word of the year and, in what appears to be a fast-growing tradition, it is not technically a word. Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is a… Read more »

The outrage over “manspreading”—a new word submission that the Collins Dictionary defines as “a male passenger in a bus or train splaying his legs and denying space to the passenger… Read more »

For the first time in nine years, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is getting an update. Jennifer Schuessler writes for the New York Times that the first… Read more »

There has been an almighty dust-up following the publication of Joan Acocella’s article in the New Yorker about Henry Hitchings’s book The Language Wars: A History of Proper English and… Read more »