The Inventory

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Top Searches on Merriam-Webster Include 'Fascism' and 'Racism' After President Trump's Latest Rally

Thursday 7:00AM

This Dictionary Time Machine Tells You Which Words Were First Printed the Year You Were Born

Andrew Liszewski

10/26/18 1:00PM

Merriam-Webster Uses Apple Fans to Define 'Sheeple'

Steampunk And Catfish (The Other Kind) Are Now In The Dictionary

5/19/14 11:40AM

How Does A Word Make It Into The Dictionary?

What words were invented the year you were born?

12/20/13 6:00PM

Selfie Is Officially the 2013 Word of the Year

Jamie Condliffe

11/19/13 3:40AM

Selfie, Derp and Phablet Are Now Words in the Oxford Dictionaries Online

Google's Definition of Literally Literally Isn't Literal

The 10 Most Looked Up Words of 2012

12/06/12 1:00AM

The Wacky Words That Are Now in the Oxford Dictionaries Online: LOLZ, Photobomb, Mwahahaha and More

A Dictionary iPad App That Lets You Serendipitously Stumble Onto Random Words

Now You Can Win Scrabble With the Word "Grrl"

Apple (Dictionary) Thinks Ballmer Is Baloney

11/11/10 9:00PM

Juror's iPhone Use Causes Mistrial In Manslaughter Case

Let's Hope the Print Oxford English Dictionary Really Dies

8/30/10 12:20PM

This Pocket Dictionary's Camera Reads All Those Abstruse, Recondite Words For Me

12/29/09 10:40AM

Google's in the Business of Defining Words Now With Google Dictionary

12/04/09 11:50AM

"Unfriend" Declared Word of the Year

11/18/09 11:36AM

Thank You, iPhone Dictionary, That Is Exactly What I Meant to Say

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