Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, posted a new blog about the “dramatic reversal in the definition” of the term “anchor baby.” In their initial definition, executives for ...

WASHINGTON — This year, more than 400 new words and senses, or meanings, have been added to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Executive Editor Steve Kleinedler says that if you ...

Recently the American Heritage Dictionary published a blog entry on the new parts of speech that have been added to its pages, in both physical and virtual form. For this entry they looked at words ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Houghton Mifflin’s latest version of the American Heritage Dictionary includes the ...

Get Wordified (not yet in the new dictionary)! This is Robin Young's portrait, as generated by the American Heritage Dictionary's Web site "You Are Your Words." Ten years in the ...

Every modern English dictionary stands in the shadow of the Holy Trinity of Lexicons: The Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, and American Heritage. With millions of words, definitions, ...

When the 1,728-page Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary appears in bookstores next month, "it will start the Third World War of Dictionaries," says its top American editor, Anne Soukhanov. "It will ...

It weighs in at nearly six pounds, fills more than 1,000 pages, and represents the work of many hands and hearts. The Klallam people’s first dictionary for what was always an unwritten language was ...