I ended my relationship with a longtime companion this week. I finally packed away my dictionary. When I started my journalism career about 26 years ago, I never would have thought my desk would be ...

If you’re seriously attempting to learn another language then at least one dictionary app will be a staple on your smartphone home screen. And familiarity with its UX foibles will have long ago set ...

The recent internet blackout in Bangladesh put a spotlight on an often-forgotten tool: the dictionary. For writers and anyone who relies on crafting basic-level English communications, the lack of ...

I thought I would try being "hip" when my daughter, who teaches junior high students, came to visit so I responded to what ...

What happens when you use a three-finger tap on your Mac’s touchpad to look up a word? In olden times, it would bring up a dictionary definition, instantly. Today, it probably doesn’t do anything. Not ...

While I have not considered myself part of the Youth for quite a few years now, I did not yet feel like I was an Old—until today, when I found out that Dictionary.com had added the word “yeet” to its ...

Every time I see the preposition “towards” in an article I’m editing, I delete the S. I’ve been doing this as long as I can recall, decades, and it’s been going on so long I don’t even remember why. I ...

Great op-ed by Camilla Cavendish on the importance of plain English (December 28). However, my enjoyment was briefly interrupted when I had to look up the definition of “otiose”. It made me smile, ...