I felt a little awkward after writing my column Monday about having an emotional attachment to my dictionary. I wondered if I made too big of a deal about ditching it after 26 years. After all, it’s ...

I ended my relationship with a longtime companion this week. I finally packed away my dictionary. When I started my journalism career about 26 years ago, I never would have thought my desk would be ...

If you’re seriously attempting to learn another language then at least one dictionary app will be a staple on your smartphone home screen. And familiarity with its UX foibles will have long ago set ...

How would you support a student who did not speak English and had no one else at the school who spoke his or her native language? I was that student some 20 years ago. Coming from the war-torn former ...

Aramide Damilola Ottun is a budding Yoruba actress blessed with both brain and beauty. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Lagos. She’s a producer of two ...

While I have not considered myself part of the Youth for quite a few years now, I did not yet feel like I was an Old—until today, when I found out that Dictionary.com had added the word “yeet” to its ...

What happens when you use a three-finger tap on your Mac’s touchpad to look up a word? In olden times, it would bring up a dictionary definition, instantly. Today, it probably doesn’t do anything. Not ...

Every time I see the preposition “towards” in an article I’m editing, I delete the S. I’ve been doing this as long as I can recall, decades, and it’s been going on so long I don’t even remember why. I ...