DICTIONARY users want to be able to find the words they search for and get enough information about those words to make their search worthwhile. But how do dictionary-makers select words and decide ...

Author and software engineer Thomas Dimson has created an AI dictionary that generates fake words and definitions. The project, like many similar ones released online recently, uses sophisticated AI ...

People often introduce a definition of a word by saying, “Webster says . . . “ The truth is, Noah Webster himself — the founder of American lexicography, or dictionary-making — hasn’t actually “said” ...

When I said I made dictionaries for Oxford University Press, people used to say: “Remind me not to play Scrabble against you!” Now they say: “Are you still making dictionaries? I just use Google.” ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) – The response from the “vocabularians” was so ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...