In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for 'woman' include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, ...

The world's largest thesaurus is due to be published this autumn, Oxford University Press has said. The project began in 1965 and will include almost the entire vocabulary of the English language. The ...

After writing reviews for CrackBerry.com for almost year and a half, one would think that I would have run out of words a long time ago.Well..... I guess I did! Unless you're a wordsmith, a thesaurus ...

Chief editor, Patrick Hanks Oxford University Press, 1,067 pages, $58 Recently, a friend and I attended a Toronto poetry reading. The star poet, one of those grizzled old parties whose work is ...

I may as well be a biased reviewer of David Crystal's books given that Words in Time and Place is the 30th book by the author to find a place on my special Crystal shelf. The importance of this latest ...

Professor Christian Kay is not one for showing off. 'Scots are quite good at dictionaries,' she says in her gentle but precise Edinburgh accent. 'Pure, grim determination is our thing.' Quite good?

Many past iOS releases let you look up definitions with a built-in dictionary with “Look Up,” but with iOS 12, we get access to a built-in thesaurus as well. As a writer, I find this a godsend. My ...