First built in the 1800s to educate all elementary school children of South Park, Kansas, the two-room schoolhouse is ...

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is one that saw an increase in searches this year – in a world where it's sometimes hard to tell what is fake and what is real online. The word they ...

Merriam-Webster is revising its definition of racism after a Missouri woman's emails claimed it fell short of including the systemic oppression of certain groups of people. Kennedy Mitchum, who ...

As the all-important question of truth and facts continues to dominate current affairs, it may come as no surprise to learn that Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “authentic.” ...

Merriam-Webster has a message for the Trump administration: There is no such thing as an "alternative fact." There are facts, and then there are falsehoods.

That people were turning to Merriam-Webster to verify new vocabulary could be read as a sign of progress. After all, 2022's word of the year belied a distrust of authority: gaslighting.

Flash flooding early Thursday morning left a mess to clean up at businesses near Waterfall Park in Merriam. The floodwaters washed a car onto the north fence of the park, which borders an industrial ...

This is misleading. Merriam-Webster has revised its entry for the word "vaccine" as part of its continual revision of entries, but it did not remove references to immunity.

Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to its dictionary. Merriam-Webster editors study the language and add new words to the dictionary every year based on their usage. The new additions are related ...

Did Merriam-Webster Update Its Definition of 'Racism' To Say Only White People Are Racist? The American dictionary announced it would revise its entry on racism in June 2020 after receiving a ...

In a blog post, Merriam-Webster cited three examples of the phrase “fake news” from three American newspapers in 1890 and 1891. If Trump was claiming he’d coined the word “fake,” he’d ...