Do you own a dictionary anymore? Most of us have shed this extra weight from our lives, knowing that these hefty books can be matched by an app on our cellphones if we need to search for the meaning ...

1. When you open a dictionary to any two-page spread, you are usually looking up a word. It is usually the case, though, that your eye wanders. Words are tantalizing, and a dictionary page holds so ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...