Dictionary.com’s word of the year is ‘6-7.’ But is it even a word and what does it mean?

Parents and teachers cover your ears. Dictionary.com says its word of the year is “6-7.” The viral term is one kids and ...
Publishers Weekly

A 2,000-Plus-Page Dictionary Teaches a Lesson

There was a time when I couldn’t work/write without my physical, hardcover dictionary at my side. It’s not that I can’t spell, or that my vocabulary is scant. My dictionary has always been a ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

'Cheeseslaw' to be immortalised in pages of Macquarie Dictionary

Three ingredients, one word — Broken Hill's iconic dish is about to enter the mainstream vernacular. The Macquarie Dictionary has announced 'cheeseslaw' will be immortalised in the pages of its 2020 ...
The New Yorker

Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops 'Acorn' For 'Broadband'

In the early nineteen-sixties, a passel of newspapers and magazines mounted a cultural jihad against a dictionary. The book in question was Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, ...