Posted on 07/19/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Mark the new workweek with new (well, new to Dictionary.com) words. In addition to its springtime update, Dictionary.com has added...
Posted on 07/13/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Concerns about linguistic extinction are, apparently, nothing new. Atlas Obscura recently shared the story of Valentin Vodnik, a Slovene priest...
Posted on 07/12/2021 at 11:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Congratulations to Zaila Avant-garde, our 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion! The fourteen-year-old from Louisiana won with the word “Murraya,”...
Posted on 07/11/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Literary Hub has a gift to all bookworms and word nerds who aren’t sure what to discuss at the parties...
Posted on 05/31/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
If T-shirt weather hasn’t quite hit yet (or is in hiding today), it will surely arrive in your area soon....
Posted on 05/31/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Memorial Day was created to honor the US military members who lost their lives serving their country. But because it...
Posted on 05/29/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The era of texting isn’t the first time that punctuation marks have carried more significance than their prescribed meaning. As...
Posted on 05/28/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Most English students working on translating ancient Greek are using a dictionary written in Victorian times. As you might imagine,...
Posted on 05/17/2021 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
If you were asked to guess when the first definitive Canadian dictionary was published, would you have said the 1990s?...
Posted on 05/17/2021 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
For many people (or at least enough to generate a cliché), Mondays bring out bad attitudes … and thus bad...
