Sarah Ogilvie grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and earned a doctorate in linguistics at Oxford University in England. She worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and returned to ...

On Jan. 11, the Washington Post reported on a closed-door immigration-policy meeting President Trump had with a group of senators. The substance of the meeting itself was eclipsed entirely by the ...

“Passions run hot when the discussion turns to language,” writes Rutgers English professor Jack Lynch in his sprightly new history of the notion of “proper” English, “The Lexicographer’s Dilemma.” ...

(Reuters) - Can a lexicographer fend off the combined forces of Facebook, the Justice Department and the entire U.S. business lobby at the U.S. Supreme Court? What if said lexicographer is also the co ...

The lexicographer’s True Color uncovers early-20th-century scientist I.H. Godlove’s quest to define colors for Merriam-Webster. Can you tell us about your research? I started with a handful of letters ...

Le Maréchal Foeh said that the word invincible means ” someone who has not yet been vanquished.” Literary circles of Paris discussed this new definition with much heat, but although they felt that M.