NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

On the second floor of an old Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany, there's a library with high ceilings, a distinctly bookish smell and one of the world's most extensive collections of Latin texts.

Modern dictionaries have a longer masthead than the average magazine; my copy of Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 25 editors. But the first—and still, by some measures, the ...

COMPREHENSIVE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEALING WITH THE ORIGIN OF WORDS AND THEIR SENSE DEVELOPMENT THUS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF ...

A comprehensive dictionary is being compiled to showcase the impact Black Americans have had on the development of the English language. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE) is a ...