Apple's Dictionary application is useful for grabbing information about items, either by looking them up in the dictionary or thesaurus, or by using online resources such as Wikipedia. Recently ...

The claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words generated debate and controversy throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as the Centers for Disease ...

It's the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of tens of thousands of volunteers. Operating in Oxford, ...

Wikipedia has changed its terminology for the word recession and locked the page after more than 20 changes were made in the last 24 hours. An updated Wikipedia page for recession tells readers the ...

Because I used to be an editor on the Dictionary, I had always wondered — and because we knew that this was a crowdsourced project, like the Wikipedia of the 19th century — I had always wondered who ...

Despite their clear commitment to the hardware version of the Kindle, Amazon continues to make the Kindle apps that run on the iPad and iPhone better. Today, version 2.2 of the app brings a full ...

In D Magazine Partners v. Rosenthal, someone described as a "welfare queen" in a magazine article sued the magazine for libel. One question was what the phrase "welfare queen" meant, and the Texas ...

After graduate school, I treated myself to a full set — that's 20 very large and heavy volumes — of the Oxford English Dictionary for my home office. It was a very on-brand purchase for me, and also a ...