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 ...

The new book explores the evolution of the dictionary, as well as how we use and create language Unabridged was featured on the Dec. 25 episode of NPR's Book of the Day Fastis' book covers how the ...

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." It's a ...

Merriam-Webster said Monday it has launched a subscription service that provides online access to the unabridged version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The new service, available at ...

All these nuggets are drawn from “Unabridged,” in which Stefan Fatsis—a journalist, broadcaster and author—reflects on his love affair with the dictionary. There are gems aplenty about subjects ...

It's a deceptively simple book and, at the same time, impossibly ambitious. It's utilitarian but also incredibly erudite. I'm talking about the dictionary. For many decades, dictionaries were ...