Despite the fact that dictionaries are a treasury of linguistic and extra-linguistic information, most people believe that they are just meant for confirming meanings of words, and nothing more. In a ...

LONDON -- OMG! The exclamatory online abbreviation has won the approval of the Oxford English Dictionary. The term -- short for "Oh my God" or "Oh my gosh" -- is one of dozens of new entries in the ...

“What is another word for `synonym`?” somebody asked me the other day. “What is the abbreviation of `abbreviation`?” I retorted. We laughed it off. But abbreviations are no laughing matter.

“What is another word for 'synonym'?” somebody asked me the other day. “What is the abbreviation of 'abbreviation'?” I retorted. We laughed it off. But abbreviations are no laughing matter.

Last week, we said dictionaries are a treasury of linguistic and extra-linguistic information, but most people believe that they are just meant for confirming meanings of words, and nothing more. We ...