The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary boasts 22,000 pages of definitions. While that may seem far from succinct, new research suggests the reference manual is meticulously organized to ...
Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...
The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution.
In June, as Black Lives Matter protests were in full swing after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a dictionary definition made headlines. The definition that drew so much ...
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2013) - APICS, the world's leading association for supply chain and operations management, today issued the APICS Dictionary, 14th edition, which contains more than ...
"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" ...
“I tried to read the dictionary – there wasn’t much plot, but at least it kept explaining as it went along.” The joke may be old but there is, perhaps, a sub-genre of contemporary writing that could ...