racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

language The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz

language Fun interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular year David Pescovitz

Games Sriracha, yowza, and sheeple among 300 new words in Scrabble dictionary David Pescovitz

apple The word "sheeple" is now in the dictionary, with Apple fans as example David Pescovitz

language "Post-truth" is the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year David Pescovitz

books Scrumdiddlyumptious and other Roald Dahlesque words now in the Oxford English Dictionary David Pescovitz

gender Merriam-Webster adds "genderqueer" to dictionary Rob Beschizza

dictionaries Merriam-Webster vs. Dictionary.com Mark Frauenfelder

colonialism Inside the effort to save an indigenous Pacific Island language that the US tried to destroy Thom Dunn

dictionary Get a paper dictionary Rob Beschizza

vision How to easily identify your dominant eye David Pescovitz

education McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Learning a new language is easy and inexpensive with Mondly Boing Boing's Shop

techlash Oxford Dictionaries' crowns 'toxic' as its 2018 word of the year Rusty Blazenhoff

Tim Hortons Canadian stereotype foils bank robbery Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets Why you should write your screenplay with Final Draft 10 Boing Boing's Shop

books Review: Afterliff, the new dictionary of things there should be words for Rob Beschizza

happy mutants What colors do you get when you spell words in hex? Cory Doctorow