The Cambridge Dictionary announced this week that they have added over 6,000 new words and definitions to their online dictionary over the last 12 months. Many of the words added to the Cambridge ...

The publication of dictionaries has been associated with the Webster name since Noah Webster’s first dictionary in 1806 and his ground breaking "American Dictionary of English" in 1828. Following ...

Python 3.15 introduces an immutable or ‘frozen’ dictionary that is useful in places ordinary dicts can’t be used. Only very rarely does Python add a new standard data type. Python 3.15, when it’s ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

An ogham stone in Cornwall, England BabelStone via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers say they are compiling the first-ever dictionary of ancient Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words. Russia is doing this. They've published a ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...

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 ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more trustworthy than a random search. Stefan Fatsis is the author of “Unabridged: The ...