Crunk Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2007-07-12): 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.
Plutoed Named Word of the Year (2007-01-17): The BBC reports that the American Dialect Society has voted "Plutoed" as the 2006 word of the year.
A Color Coded Map of Nouns (2006-07-12): Color Code is an interactive map of 33,000 words, grouped by meaning.
Digg.com and Verb Usage (2006-07-05): In an earlier post today we talked about a new video sharing site with a funny name: (Eefoof.
Podcast is the Word of the Year (2005-12-08): Editor and Publisher reports the New Oxford American Dictionary has declared that the term "podcast" is the Word of the Year.
Jumping the Couch (2005-08-30): It's time for a visit to the Urban Dictionary to check in on the new phrases being added to the lexicon.
Top Ten Words Not in the Dictionary (2005-05-31): Merriam Webster's website has created a top ten list of people's favorite words that are not in the dictionary.
WordCount Tracks Word Popularity (2005-05-26): WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.
Word of the Year: Blog (2004-12-01): Blog is the word of the year according to Merriam-Webster.
Word of the Day: Borked (2004-11-10): With the illness of Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist, Washington is gearing up for a big confirmation fight over the next Supreme Court justice.