David Skinner's The Story of Ain't tells the story of Webster's Third, the most controversial dictionary ever assembled. Here, Skinner tells us the story of the dictionary that was referred to as ...

According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into a single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.

Not to be confused with balls of any kind. Origin: Fashion blogger Elizabeth Spiridakis first used the word on her blog, her best friend came up with it because adding balls to any word was “pretty ...