While the famous Merriam-Webster.com online dictionary is constantly being updated, creating a new edition of our Collegiate Dictionary print book is a different matter. We'd been updating it regularly since its publication in 2003, but it wasn't until fall of 2025 that we released a brand-new edition, different from all those that preceded it. Here's the st ... Show More
Jul 2025
An Interview with John Morse, Part 3
Part three of a three-part interview with John Morse, former president and publisher of Merriam-WebsterHosted by Emily Brewster and Peter Sokolowski.Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media, with much gratitude to John Voci.Transcript available here.See Privacy Pol ... Show More
48 m
Jul 2025
An Interview with John Morse, Part 2
Part two of a three-part interview with John Morse, former president and publisher of Merriam-WebsterHosted by Emily Brewster and Peter Sokolowski.Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media, with much gratitude to John Voci.Transcript available here.See Privacy Polic ... Show More
47m 20s
Jul 2025
An Interview with John Morse, Part 1
Part one of a three-part interview with John Morse, former president and publisher of Merriam-WebsterHosted by Emily Brewster and Peter Sokolowski.Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media, with much gratitude to John Voci.Transcript available here.See Privacy Polic ... Show More
1h 5m
Jul 2023
Valerie Fridland (on linguistics)
Valerie Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude) is a professor, sociolinguist, and author. Valerie joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why people dislike the word "moist" so much, how accents are a part of social identity, and where modern English developed from. Valerie and Dax talk a ... Show More
1h 59m
Jun 2023
Ken Eurich on Growing Up Online and The Art of Oversharing
Get to know 22-year-old TikTok sensation, Ken Eurich. Raised in rural Pennsylvania and now an Austin, TX transplant, Ken has amassed a following of over 2 million followers in just a few years, widely beloved for her sense of humor, honesty, and her dog Ma. In today's episode, sh ... Show More
37m 15s
Jun 2016
Ep 183 - The Door, by Magda Szabo
<p>"In Soviet Hungary...nanny hires you!" </p><p>Time to talk about The Door, a lesser known but very powerful book by celebrated Hungarian author Magda Szabo. It's set in the 1960s and 70s, so we read up a little on the Eastern Bloc to make sure we knew what we're talking about. ... Show More
1h 4m
<strong>Robert Frost, </strong>born March 26, 1874, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Francisco-California" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">San Francisco</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blan ... Show More
