Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...

An exchange during Question Time quickly turned to Labour's capital gains tax. Almost two-thirds of New Zealanders would want any capital gains tax to apply only to real, inflation-adjusted gains, not ...

Let’s say you started a retail shop🏬. You had a grand opening ceremony🎉. And, you are super excited 🤩 to grow your business📊. Then, you decided to use lists in python to remember where to place ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

In the span of eight years, President-elect Donald Trump has defeated the first two women to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party, extinguishing their attempts to shatter the glass ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Former President Jimmy Carter turns 100 years old on Tuesday and his hometown celebrated his centennial birthday early. On Saturday, Georgians gathered in the downtown area of his ...

Have you ever read a children's book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn't really tell a story like all ...

A woman was found dead after being attacked by a python in central Indonesia, police and local officials said Friday, the third such death in the province since June. Maga, a 74-year-old woman who ...