Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

Security researchers have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability dubbed "ClawJacked" in the popular AI agent OpenClaw that allowed a malicious website to silently bruteforce access to a locally ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...

To all those cynical adults who think dictionaries have gone the way of dinosaurs, replaced by omnipresent search engines -- third graders across Lake County beg to differ. Thanks to the Rotary Club ...

Hello! I'm covering Niagara County for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Taylor.Anthony@wkbw.com NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — A simple book made a big impact in classrooms ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

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 ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." It's a ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more trustworthy than a random search. Stefan Fatsis is the author of “Unabridged: The ...