The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid ...

For Cortnie Brooks, it's not just about what you say. It's about how you say it. Over the course of two decades, Brooks has ...

Merriam-Webster will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when it releases its first new edition in more than ...

Susie Dent’s winning novel follows a team of lexicographers investigating cryptic letters related to a long-ago disappearance.

Word puzzles have become one of the most popular puzzle challenges on the web. These seemingly simple puzzles consisting of random letters arranged in a grid have taken the web by storm. The goal of a ...

Word puzzles have become one of the most popular puzzle challenges on the web. These seemingly simple puzzles consisting of random letters arranged in a grid have taken the web by storm. The goal of a ...

Marilynne Robinson, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of a National Humanities Medal, is one of the world’s great ...

Optical illusion puzzles have been there for centuries and these are fun challenges that are designed to play tricks on our ...

By ISABELLA VOLMERT and COREY WILLIAMS GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside a Church of Jesus ...

Strands is yet another daily puzzle from the New York Times that you can add to your routine to flex your brain muscles. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...