In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination ...

You probably have a nice leather-bound dictionary and wonder why you would ever need an online one. One thing: in a newsroom, dictionaries tend to grow legs and walk away. An online dictionary can ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

You may be surprised to learn that Word does not come with a dictionary even though it has a thesaurus. Microsoft configured Word so that people can choose their own dictionaries. If you have an ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There are a zillion online dictionaries on the Web, so when I saw the title of this site, I wasn’t exactly overjoyed. It always pays to look a little deeper, and such was the case here. What I ...