The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.

THIS book contains two out of the four lectures delivered by Mr. Wyndham Hulme as Sandars reader in bibliography at the University of Cambridge in May 1922, and forms a notable contribution to the ...

Is it Ohio? Chicago? “Field of Dreams”? Are the Great Plains included? The question of how to define the region is back in the spotlight in an election year with two Midwestern vice ...

While Google Docs might be the first online word processor that comes to mind for most of us, it's by no means the only option out there on the web—and one of the best alternatives is the free ...

So where did the full English originate? How did it come to define a nation? And come to think of it, what exactly is it? Historically, English breakfasts were a modest affair. For Britain’s ...

Because replying to Durant’s tweet was the official X account of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and its million followers. Durant at least seems to find joy in the scary world of replies to the ...

When asked to define the word trust, Trump told “Some Future Day” podcast host Marc Beckman that it’s an “interesting word.” “Trust, it’s an interesting word, because first you need ...

Success, to her, is not measured by what she has afforded. “My definition of success is that I still have the same five best friends from college,” Ms. Weiss said. “I’m just human like ...

Speaking to a crowd at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday, former President Donald Trump explained what the word “grocery” means ― or at least what it means to him. “I have more complaints on ...