News Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles Ellsworth Toohey

AI Merriam-Webster "announces" new AI as a prank Grant St. Clair

angry bigots Man who threatened Merriam-Webster over gender definitions sentenced to one year in prison Carla Sinclair

words Is "Goblin Mode" really the Word of the Year, or are we being gaslighted? Thom Dunn

literature "Gaslighting" isn't Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year, darling, you're just confused Rob Beschizza

dictionary 'Fluffernutter' is now an official Merriam-Webster dictionary word Rusty Blazenhoff

COVID-19 Dictionary searches for "Schadenfreude" were up 30,500% after Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis Thom Dunn

racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

Culture Learn when a word was first used in print with Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature Rusty Blazenhoff

books How do new words get in the dictionary? Andrea James

gender Merriam-Webster adds "genderqueer" to dictionary Rob Beschizza

erase racism 'The hood is off': Virginia Republican steps onto America's most obvious rhetorical landmine Jason Weisberger

Technology Microsoft tried to ban the word "Microslop" and it backfired badly Ellsworth Toohey

Games Razer's oldest mouse is new again, and $1337 Rob Beschizza

AI Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling generative AI "slop" Rob Beschizza

Merriam-Webster once had a card catalog of 315,000 words spelled backward Gail Sherman

language Merriam-Webster picks "slop" as word of the year Rob Beschizza

law Sabzi: Cornwall deli trademarked the Hindi word for "vegetables" then threatened cookbook author Rob Beschizza

"Vibe Coding" is Collins' Dictionary word of the year Rob Beschizza