A former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary secretly deleted words he didn’t like. A-ha! So there is another perk of editing the dictionary beyond license to deliver “if you look up X in the ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ogilvie found that Burchfield had actually deleted 17 percent of the English words that originated outside ...

A Q&A with Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and author of ’Word By Word,’ on profanity, and the politics of language Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and one of the dictionary ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," told us the surprising words that are consistently the most looked up. Following is a ...

An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary attempted to rewrite it by deleting thousands of words with foreign roots, including those of Indian-origin, a new book claims. Robert ...