George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

In Merriam-Webster’s tenth edition, the dictionary defines the noun female as “of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs.” The change in the online edition to ...

The AP, which has published a stylebook since 1953, released the book’s 57th edition ... involved dictionaries — a switch from Webster’s New World Dictionary to Merriam-Webster.