Australia’s history is full of eccentric MPs, including serial quiz show contestants and a prime minister who pumped iron for ...

Georgina Godwin meets John Lloyd, one of the men behind ‘The Meaning of Liff’. He shares insight on working with Douglas ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

House”, reveals that a clewner is a high-ranking villain, and the dance is a hanging. Bouse makes an appearance—another of the oldest slang words that is still in robust use today, says Mr Green, ...

Please note that these are just the code examples accompanying the book, which we uploaded for your convenience; be aware that these notebooks may not be useful without the formulae and descriptive ...

If you look up “microaggression” or “sheeple” or “safe space” on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the entries won’t have a byline—but their author is Stefan Fatsis. A longtime journalist ...

It’s intoxicating to be in the dictionary. Sometimes, when I Google myself, I get a cheap thrill from finding my name on Merriam-Webster’s website, where the “Recent Examples on the Web” section ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

For your next book club meeting, liven up the conversation with these fun and thought-provoking book club questions For book lovers, there’s nothing more exciting than learning someone has read the ...

If we iterate over a dictionary as we do with a list, this yields the dictionary’s keys. >>> furniture = {'living room': ['armchair', 'sofa', 'table'], ... 'bedroom ...