If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...