"I think the weirdest quirk of English is that we're still arguing about pointless things like whether to split infinitives or end a sentence with a preposition," Merriam-Webster editor Ammon Shea ...

Associate professor of English Erin Webster did not plan on teaching when she started her undergraduate degree. However, she has taught at the College of William and Mary since 2016 and is now ...

Merriam-Webster is the oldest dictionary-publishing company in America and Friday was a day of expansion for the English language. The company released the addition of 690 new words and meanings that ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...