The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...

You can never stop learning a language. Just when you think that you’ve mastered a grammar rule, you’ll come across several exceptions you never knew. There is always room to improve your vocabulary ...

At a recent dinner party I brought up the subject of dictionaries, drawing a sharp and immediate response: “Dictionary?” said a friend, “Who needs a dictionary? If I need a word I just look it up on ...

We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more. Being able to learn a new language is not an easy task. Rather than carry around a dictionary while travelling, there are other ...

A convenient feature of Mac OS X is its built-in spell checker, used by most Apple programs and accessible to any developer that wants to include the feature in their software. For example, BBEdit ...

Paul Hemetsberger started his online dictionary dict.cc in 2002 and has grown it to one of the best known web services in the German speaking world. Eleven servers handle between 5 and 6 million page ...