Language is important in shaping a nation’s identity, culture, and education. Early on, the Americans used many British dictionaries, and most of them were British in their spelling, pronunciation, ...

Robert Siegel talks with John Morse, president and publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It was 200 years ago that Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...