NEW YORK — Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just...
Scrabble players can up their game by playing a slew of new food words like avo, guac and hangry.
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
"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.'"
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.