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 ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

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 ...

Every now and then, the somewhat sketchy internet connection at my house goes kaput. I'm told this is a common circumstance ...

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 ...

Regularly, I have to reach for a dictionary to enjoy fully the rich use of language used by Janan Ganesh. Last Saturday (“Mourning the Expat Havens”, FT Weekend, July 24) I’d made a mental note to ...