The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...

You can never stop learning a language. Just when you think that you’ve mastered a grammar rule, you’ll come across several exceptions you never knew. There is always room to improve your vocabulary ...

At a recent dinner party I brought up the subject of dictionaries, drawing a sharp and immediate response: “Dictionary?” said a friend, “Who needs a dictionary? If I need a word I just look it up on ...

We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more. Being able to learn a new language is not an easy task. Rather than carry around a dictionary while travelling, there are other ...

German is one of the most popular European languages. Several countries use the language outside of Germany as well. It’s difficult to travel to that part of the world without running into the German ...

A convenient feature of Mac OS X is its built-in spell checker, used by most Apple programs and accessible to any developer that wants to include the feature in their software. For example, BBEdit ...

In my teenage years, I believed my father knew every word in the English language. Whenever I stumbled upon an unfamiliar phrase, I would run to him and he would explain it with the calm authority of ...

Paul Hemetsberger started his online dictionary dict.cc in 2002 and has grown it to one of the best known web services in the German speaking world. Eleven servers handle between 5 and 6 million page ...