SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Visitors to the official Web site of Merriam-Webster, based in Springfield, Mass., have chosen "w00t" as the Word of the Year for 2007.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 12 (UPI) -- It might make a "ginormous" difference only to language purists but the U.S. publisher Merriam-Webster has added about 100 words to its Collegiate Dictionary.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has its "Word of the Year," picked by an overwhelming 5-to-1 vote on its Web site: "truthiness," a noun.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 6 (UPI) -- Mouse potato, spyware, biodiesel and avian influenza are just some of the ways American English reflects a changing world.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 6 (UPI) -- Tech words mouse potato, ringtone, spyware, and google, where among those added to Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary's Eleventh Edition.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 23 (UPI) -- An animal rights group wants the leading U.S. dictionary publisher to change its definition of circus.
AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Jordan's professional unions Monday called on their members to boycott reference books that they said slander Arabs, especially Merriam-Webster's.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 26 (UPI) -- Merriam-Webster, a leading U.S. reference publisher, has good news for Scrabble players -- lots of new words using q, x and z.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster says "blog" was the most looked-up word this year with "defenestration" rounding out the Top 10 Words of 2004.
OAKBROOK, Ill., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. dictionary's decision to list a low-paying, dead-end job as a "McJob" has drawn the ire of fast-food giant McDonalds, a report said Monday.
