Unabridged” by Stefan Fatsis is a lively history of dictionaries that also looks at how they reflect and ratify changes in our language.

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

Norman Knight, a retired Clark-Pleasant Middle School teacher, writes this weekly column for the Daily Journal. Send comments to [email protected].

In part two of this three-part series, AI scientists immerse themselves in the world of primatology to accelerate behavioral ...

Other words that Canadians searched in general included Dachshund, a dog breed from Germany, at 84,000 searches as well as gyro, a Greek dish, at 71,000 searches. Both of those words take on their ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.

An email from Jeffrey Epstein's brother mentioning the nickname 'Bubba' could refer to former US President Bill Clinton, ...

If you've spent any time with kids recently, you've probably heard the slang term "six - seven". It seems to have no meaning, ...