Apple's Dictionary application is useful for grabbing information about items, either by looking them up in the dictionary or thesaurus, or by using online resources such as Wikipedia. Recently ...

Because I used to be an editor on the Dictionary, I had always wondered — and because we knew that this was a crowdsourced project, like the Wikipedia of the 19th century — I had always wondered who ...

Two decades ago, Oxford University Press invited David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Simon Winchester and five other distinguished writers, as well as one bookish journalist, to contribute usage notes ...

The claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words generated debate and controversy throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as the Centers for Disease ...

How do we judge whether a person knows what he or she is talking about? How do we gauge someone's credibility? At least in part, we rely on a set of cues -- titles, university degrees, papers ...