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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...