Bob Dylan attempts to describe Willie Nelson in a new profile on the country legend, calling him "indefinable" and a "cowboy apparition." ...

As we've mentioned before, John Cleese and Eric Idle have been locked into a prolonged social media feud, stemming from Idle’s dissatisfaction with the group’s current management, by Terry Gilliam’s ...

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 ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

On Wednesday, we launched a new way for us to answer your questions. Our Explain It to Me franchise will include a weekly podcast, weekly newsletter, and regular videos that all focus on what our ...

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

The Python programming language, born from the creative genius of Guido van Rossum as far back as some 35 years ago, has evolved into a crucial tool for professionals working in various areas, ...

Struggling to get your colleagues on board with best-practice SEO for redirecting homepages with data science? Find out how Python can help estimate PageRank uplift. If you’re an SEO professional you ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...