Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Peaches Monroee was a young woman of no particular fame when she posted a video about her eyebrows on social network Vine two years ago. But that changed in the seconds it took her to describe those ...

Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he ...

In his new book, "Unabridged," Stefan Fatsis unspools the history of the modern dictionary - including why Americans spell colors and favorite without the letter "u." ...

The new book explores the evolution of the dictionary, as well as how we use and create language Unabridged was featured on the Dec. 25 episode of NPR's Book of the Day Fastis' book covers how the ...

When considering a traditional dictionary, the words “fast” and “beautiful” don’t come to mind; even our digital dictionaries, sometimes coming in the form of iOS’ Look Up feature when highlighting a ...

This fall marks the 150th anniversary of a landmark in the history of American dictionary making: the creation of the 1864 edition of Webster's Dictionary. It was the first comprehensive revision of ...