Sarah Ogilvie grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and earned a doctorate in linguistics at Oxford University in England. She worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and returned to ...

On Jan. 11, the Washington Post reported on a closed-door immigration-policy meeting President Trump had with a group of senators. The substance of the meeting itself was eclipsed entirely by the ...

Everybody complains about the language, but nobody does anything about it — well, almost nobody. This book is an account of some of the people who did try to do something about it. It's about the rise ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," told us that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, and how to use it correctly.

(Reuters) - Can a lexicographer fend off the combined forces of Facebook, the Justice Department and the entire U.S. business lobby at the U.S. Supreme Court? What if said lexicographer is also the co ...

“Passions run hot when the discussion turns to language,” writes Rutgers English professor Jack Lynch in his sprightly new history of the notion of “proper” English, “The Lexicographer’s Dilemma.” ...

The lexicographer’s True Color uncovers early-20th-century scientist I.H. Godlove’s quest to define colors for Merriam-Webster. Can you tell us about your research? I started with a handful of letters ...

SIRHIND, pronounced Sar-hind, is a city in Indian Punjab. In Mughal era, Sirhind was considered among the big cities situated between Lahore and Delhi. According to Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam, ...