As of 2020, the English language has more than 170,000 words that are regularly used. However, the active vocabulary of the average individual is just 20,000 words. This means there are over 150,000 ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

In this compelling computerized version of Noah Webster’s venerable lexicon, as drafted by George and Charles Merriman, a user has either a wonderful new writing productivity tool or a dangerous ...

It may come as no surprise to you that many of us at Merriam-Webster are book enthusiasts. After all, we deal in books: We read them, we mark them, we make them. For my own part, books take up more ...

I haven't owned a dictionary in years, but sometimes I miss opening a big, hardcover book. While online dictionaries are efficient, they lack the tactile experience of a physical book and, more ...