Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...

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Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

George R. Coder, age 87, of Lancaster, passed away on October 18, 2025, at Ephrata Manor. He was the beloved husband of Edwina H. Coder; together, they celebrated 64 years of marriage. Born in ...

Zach Yadegari, 18, never wanted to go to college. After all, why would he need to? Cal AI, the calorie-tracking app he co-founded, blossomed into a $30 million empire before he could even submit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although he started his first business at just ten years old, earned a perfect 4.0 GPA, and achieved a 34 on the ACT, he was still ...