Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

New York officials announced that a 16-century book called the Di Gara text will be returned to its rightful owner after it ...

But history is bursting with entertaining synonyms for scarecrow—here are 11 of our favorites, from blencher to moggy. In the ...

As Old English evolved into Middle and then modern English, the word becameaskenand thenask. But the ax pronunciation stuck ...