NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

The first-ever comprehensive online dictionary for the Balochi language, titled ‘Labzganj’, has been officially launched and is now available to the ...

On the second floor of an old Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany, there's a library with high ceilings, a distinctly bookish smell and one of the world's most extensive collections of Latin texts.

Modern dictionaries have a longer masthead than the average magazine; my copy of Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 25 editors. But the first—and still, by some measures, the ...

Telugu has been declared a classical language by the Centre, but a lot needs to be done to nurture it and promote its usage. There is a need for the language to adopt some of the technical terms to ...

A comprehensive dictionary is being compiled to showcase the impact Black Americans have had on the development of the English language. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE) is a ...

CHENNAI: As a child, the weekend meant lazily laying back on the couch, munching away on the leftovers from the night before, while watching my favourite movie, '101 Dalmatians'. But to my ...

To English-speakers today, the language in its earliest form — spoken over a millennium ago — seems like straight-up gibberish. But scholars at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies ...

When Samuel Johnson compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language in 1755, it stood 18 inches tall. A Dictionary of the English Language took nine years to complete and held its ...

To facilitate aspirants or students of dance understand the nuances of Bharatanatyam and focus on mastering the moves, Vidya Bhavani Suresh has released a book A comprehensive dictionary of ...