With 2017 finally coming to a close — thank God — it's time to look at what words rose in prominence to enter the hallowed halls of our online dictionaries. This year, Merriam-Webster has added ...

We all know the problems Wikipedia had in the past over misinformation and their efforts to correct errors in their community-generated information. Now from Merriam-Webster, a fairly well-respected ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

Merriam-Webster’s website receives about a billion visits a year, making the company a word digital leader as well, Barlow said. Over the last 10 years, revenue overall has grown by nearly 500 per ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 18, 2017 at 10:24 am September 18, 2017 at ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added more than 400 new words and definitions — including fluffernutter, dad bod and vaccine passport. KING: If those questions do not make sense, don't worry. You ...

What did the cheese say to the other cheese when it was about to take a picture? “Smile!” That, dear readers, is an example of what Merriam-Webster would call a “dad joke,” which is to say that it’s ...

There may also be a reason why Merriam-Webster went so hard with their ad. The company, as well as Encyclopedia Britannica, is suing the tech company Perplexity for copyright infringement, claiming it ...