Nevertheless, the International of 1890 is in the line of development from the American Dictionary of the English Language of 1827, and invites comparison with the form immediately preceding it, the ...

BERGEN EVANS, professor of English at Northwestern University, is known to a wide television and radio audience as one of our liveliest lexicographers and literary controversialists. He takes up, in ...

Anyone with a stake in the effective writing of words — and that’s pretty much all of us — can only be humbled by the elusiveness of their meaning. We seek comfort in a dictionary’s defining, ...

“The Definition of a Dictionary,” published in Slate on Tuesday, is Stefan Fatsis’ story about the latest, mammoth, digitally-oriented remake of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Last weekend Stefan ...