Merriam-Webster is using voice search within its iPhone dictionary application that lets users look up any word by simply speaking into their device. Users can search for words without having to spell ...
Merriam-Webster has picked its word of the year ... One reason many people search for the word is because it has a number of meanings, including "not false or imitation" and also "true to ...
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and deep fakes - gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time," Merriam-Webster said in a statement on Monday. Curiously, search interest in the word was not driven by any single event ...
Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and the author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," took four months to define the word "god." Following is a transcript of the video.
Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary.