USA Today reports that Merriam-Webster is adding 100 new words to its dictionary. (July 13, 2007)
Crunk has made its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary after an evolution of usage that includes hip-hop magazines, sports magazines and the New York Times. (July 12, 2007)
Mignon Fogarty is the host of the podcast called Grammar Girl. (May 7, 2007)
The BBC reports that the American Dialect Society has voted "Plutoed" as the 2006 word of the year. (January 17, 2007)
Merriam-Webster has announced that they have selected truthiness as the 2006 Word of the Year. (December 13, 2006)
The Associated Press is reporting that New Zealand is going to high school students to use text-speaking or texting acronyms in national exams. (November 11, 2006)
In a somewhat lengthy article, The New York Times describes
the life of the lexicographers who are hard at work creating the 3rd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. (November 6, 2006)
Michael Krantz of the official Google blog team addresses the trademark issues the company is facing as the word "google" is increasingly being used as a verb. (October 30, 2006)
A British study found that many people are baffled by the onslaught of new tech terms. (October 5, 2006)
We knew it. (August 16, 2006)
Color Code is an interactive map of 33,000 words, grouped by meaning. (July 12, 2006)
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