Erin McKean founded Wordnik, a nonprofit corporation and the world’s largest online dictionary. Today the language guru and wordsmith plies her trade at IBM as a Developer Evangelist for LoopBack, an ...

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Robert Siegel talks with John Morse, president and publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It was 200 years ago that Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

It weighs in at nearly six pounds, fills more than 1,000 pages, and represents the work of many hands and hearts. The Klallam people’s first dictionary for what was always an unwritten language was ...

Newer terms like 'cold brew' and 'farm-to-table' plus slang like 'rizz' are just a few of the new words readers can expected ...