From the first English dictionary in 1604 to today’s online platforms, dictionaries have shifted from telling us how to speak ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

Dictionaries are no longer static rulebooks—they’re living records that adapt to how we speak, write, and connect. From Spanish–English resources for learners to Merriam-Webster’s evolving entries, ...

Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word "twerk" to its collection. The addition came after Miley Cyrus' widely discussed performance at the MTV Video ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It’s spring, and a young lexicographer’s fancy turns to … love of new words. Many dictionaries update online periodically ...

Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

Sad news for those of us with fond memories of long minutes lost in the more arcane histories of English words: the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which a team of 80 lexicographers ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

Noah Webster portrait, circa 1891. This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. A version of the article below was originally ...