When the most respected dictionary in the German-speaking world releases its 26th edition on Friday, of the 5,000 new words that are to be taken on board, one has received far more publicity than any ...

The 29th edition of the Duden dictionary is published on Tuesday. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP) The new Duden dictionary is thicker than ...

The latest edition of the Duden, the preeminent dictionary of the German language, contains 3,000 new words. Language purists are rattled — and some politicians also feel threatened by the changes.

German is one of the most popular European languages. Several countries use the language outside of Germany as well. It’s difficult to travel to that part of the world without running into the German ...

There are around 10 million slips in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae archive (NP Holmes/CC BY-SA 3.0) In the 125 years since, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) has seen the fall of an empire, two ...

Andrzej Tobis designed his own version of an illustrated Polish-German dictionary issued two decades ago in the German Democratic Republic. Whilst he’s enclosed the literal meaning and references of ...

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