A new ancient Greek-to-English dictionary 23 years in the making, the first written since 1889, has done away with…
It’s been some time since I looked up the word “woman” in the Oxford Dictionary of English, but it seems like it’s…
Merriam-Webster has put its imprimatur on the use of “they” as a nonbinary, gender neutral pronoun, adding that…
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Hey, geeks. Scrabble just added tons of new words to its official dictionary for the first time in four years. A lot…
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Oxford University Press has updated its dictionaries to include very important words that we use basically every…
It's time for that part of the year where we helplessly debate why esteemed publications are succumbing to all the…
Four different forms of the word 'cunt' have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, and they're all…
You know what? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think dictionaries should keep inducting new…
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The 1989 Alyson Almanac is a treasure trove of gay and lesbian data, and its Dictionary of Slang and Historical…
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You can toss that mix tape you were hanging on to for sentimental purposes because the folks behind the Oxford…
Swoon. "Originally published in the July 1922 edition of FLAPPER magazine, this dictionary went into some detail,…
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A school committee has decided not to toss the dictionaries from a fourth-grade classroom - which caused a brouhaha…
It is apodeictic that a periapt might skirr against the garments of a fubsy, agrestic farmer, and compossible that…
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