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In school, many of us were sent to dictionaries to look up words we didn't know. Now, dictionaries are coming to us, filling themselves up with terms that may already feel overly familiar. More than ...

The word hashtag has officially been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, the OED announced in a blog post Friday. But that’s not the most exciting thing in its announcement. The word hashtag ...

If you thought it was tough reading through a Shakespeare play back in high school, imagine if he was alive today and you had to explain the terms currently in use, such as "selfie" and "hashtag." The ...

It is that time of year again: time to update the dictionary. That means it is also time, now seemingly an annual rite of passage, for the great debate over the demise, or liberation, of the English ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Here's official proof that the selfie is here to stay — as of today, if you look up "selfie" in a Merriam-Webster dictionary, you'll find the ...

Merriam-Webster finally entered the digital age Monday, adding a slew of social-media-savvy terms like “selfie,” “hashtag,” and “tweep” to the 2014 update of its collegiate dictionary. The eleventh ...

In another sign that the digital world is permeating society, the Oxford American Dictionary revealed additions to its lexicon last week, adopting the language of texting, tweeting and social ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, Scrabble players are going to have some new words on their boards. The fifth edition of the game’s official dictionary includes 5,000 new words, according to ...