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Small words have big consequences.

Peter Sokolowski remembers being in the hallway outside the pronunciation editor’s office one day and hearing from within the office a very measured voice say, as blandly as possible, “Motherfucker. Motherfucker. Motherfucker.” It was one of our old pronunciation editors, trying to get the intonation right for the audio file. He left a few years la

One of the most common requests we have gotten over the years is for more example sentences in our dictionaries.

language that doesn’t change is a dead language,

Logic be damned: everybody knows that the more syllables you slap onto a word, the smarter you sound.

We don’t just want our words to have meaning, we want them to mean something, and the difference is palpable.

Generally speaking, and as mentioned earlier, the smaller and more commonly used the word is, the more difficult it is to define.