You probably have a nice leather-bound dictionary and wonder why you would ever need an online one. One thing: in a newsroom, dictionaries tend to grow legs and walk away. An online dictionary can ...

Twitter isn’t just a social network, it’s now part of the electronic lexicon. Oxford Dictionaries Online has added Twittersphere to its listing of words, along with technology oriented acronyms like ...

Channel 4’s Daytime favourite, Countdown, is changing with the times. Over thirty years since the launch of the long running series, Countdown is replacing the traditional print version of the Oxford ...

BEIJING, China, December 24, 2024 (EZ Newswire) -- On December 23, the NetEase Youdao Dictionary announced the 2024 Word of the Year: “damn.” Official data shows that the search volume for this word ...

After Vice President Joe Biden used the term "malarkey" in a 2012 debate, searches for the word in online dictionaries surged. Now that dictionaries are readily available with a mouse click or finger ...

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 ...