On a recent episode of NPR's Book of the Day podcast, Stefan Fastis, author of Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the ...
The word “convivial” is derived from Late Latin convivialis meaning “pertaining to a feast,” from Latin convivium meaning “a feast,” from convivere “to carouse together, live together,” and from the ...
Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...
The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...
Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, ...
The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...
In his new book, "Unabridged," Stefan Fatsis unspools the history of the modern dictionary - including why Americans spell ...
For some, dictionaries are more than writing tools. They are doorways to discoveries.
Scientists of the Northern Arctic Federal University made an audio collection of 500 most commonly used words in different dialects of the Nenets language in the Nenets Autonomous Region, the ...
A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word ...
The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...