Sounds made-up, right? It is. And on this day in 1939, a suspicious editor of Webster’s New International Dictionary, second edition, thought just that after finding it in the dictionary. He went ...

Origins: Given the tremendous amount of detailed information that must be assembled and managed in producing the average dictionary, it's a testament to the skill and care of those who compile and ...

In 1934, the second edition of the Webster’s International Dictionary was published. It was a success for the G&C Merriam Company (now Merriam-Webster company), but little did they know at the time ...

Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Even lexicographers make mistakes. An editor at Merriam-Webster discovered a big one ...

Population dord is a major consideration for city planners in determining how many primary schools are needed in an area. If the dord is extreme, far more classrooms will be needed. What's that? You ...

On this day in 1939, as the world fell apart overseas, an alert editor at the G. & C. Merriam Company in Springfield, Massachusetts noticed an oddity in the company’s flagship dictionary, the On this ...

* Today in 1939, an employee of G&C Merriam Company was scanning the 2nd edition of Webster's New International Dictionary – known internally as W2 – when he or she stumbled across a word on page 771 ...