Da “Yoopers” up dere in da U.P., Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, have hit it big with inclusion of their nickname in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online database. The ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 18, 2017 at 10:24 am September 18, 2017 at ...

We all know the problems Wikipedia had in the past over misinformation and their efforts to correct errors in their community-generated information. Now from Merriam-Webster, a fairly well-respected ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added more than 400 new words and definitions — including fluffernutter, dad bod and vaccine passport. KING: If those questions do not make sense, don't worry. You ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Was 2016 a dream or a nightmare? Try something in between: “surreal,” which is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year, unveiled Monday. Meaning “marked by the intense irrational reality of ...

Stans everywhere can now rejoice in recognition, and not just as another internet slang word or a lyric from an Eminem song. The word, meaning “an extremely or excessively enthusiastic and devoted fan ...

Last month, the editors at Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary released a sampling of words they were adding to the publication’s pages. Though I recognized most of them, a few were new to me.

The dictionary added 840 new words and definitions to its website today, and many of them—including the abbreviation for “greatest of all time”—have their roots in science, tech and social media slang ...