On Jan. 11, the Washington Post reported on a closed-door immigration-policy meeting President Trump had with a group of senators. The substance of the meeting itself was eclipsed entirely by the ...

Sarah Ogilvie grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and earned a doctorate in linguistics at Oxford University in England. She worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and returned to ...

In Williams’s The Liar’s Dictionary (Doubleday, Jan.), a contemporary lexicographer gets caught up in the legacy of a Victorian coiner of fake words. What was the inspiration for your novel? The idea ...

The Federal Circuit recently held that a patentee acted as its own lexicographer to define a claim term even though it did not explicitly define the term. Rather, because the patentee consistently and ...

(Reuters) - Can a lexicographer fend off the combined forces of Facebook, the Justice Department and the entire U.S. business lobby at the U.S. Supreme Court? What if said lexicographer is also the co ...

The lexicographer’s True Color uncovers early-20th-century scientist I.H. Godlove’s quest to define colors for Merriam-Webster. Can you tell us about your research? I started with a handful of letters ...