To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word “te” as a variant of “ti,” the seventh tone on the musical scale, is a hardworking little gem among 5,000 words added to “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,” out on Aug. 11 from Merriam-Webster.
"Nomophobia is what's called a blend: a new word made up of syllables from two or more words, in this case 'no mobile phone phobia.'"
The Merriam-Webster dictionary has gotten bigger. It grew after about 1,700 popular online terms, abbreviations and other words that...
Words from the Spanish-Tagalog ‘vocabulario’ or dictionary, Libreria Martinez, circa 1810
Scrabble players can up their game by playing a slew of new food words like avo, guac and hangry.
NEW YORK — Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just...
