Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

For the first time in more than two decades, there's a new hard-copy update to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It adds more than 5,000 new words and phrases. Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large at ...

Source: anncapictures / Pixabay I've started having problems with the notion of a to-do list. Yes, it's short, to-do, but that's perhaps its best attribute semiotically or philosophically. Now let's ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds ...

The increasing use of TikTok trends and social media terms in everyday conversation has led Cambridge Dictionary to include “skibidi,” “delulu” and “tradwife” in the 6,000 new words it has added to ...

The terms, which started as online slang, are expected to have staying power. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A gibberish word, a gender-regressive label and the shorthand for delusional thinking have all ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is considering significantly expanding its travel restrictions by potentially banning citizens of 36 additional countries from entering the United States, ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

If you obtained a mortgage recently, there’s a good chance you’d like to pay it off as soon as possible. If you obtained a mortgage in the past five, 10 or 20 years, there’s a good chance you, too, ...

Before you get too excited, these experimental features are only available to select YouTube Premium users. Starting with “Recommended videos in Premium queue,” its name is quite descriptive. This ...