Ten years ago, the first hashtag came to be, courtesy of Twitter. Did anyone ever expect it would become such a ubiquitous part of our daily conversations or that we would be making the hashtag symbol ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Hashtag triple word score. For ...

South Korean tourist Heemok Ann takes his own picture in front of the U.S. Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington after the U.S. government shutdown on Oct. 1, 2013. Reuters/Larry Downing “Hashtag ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Here's official proof that the selfie is here to stay — as of today, if you look up "selfie" in a Merriam-Webster dictionary, you'll find the ...

America's best-selling dictionary Merriam-Webster has updated itself to the modern slang by adding over 150 new words, including 'selfie', 'hashtag' and 'tweep'. "So many of these new words show the ...

It is that time of year again: time to update the dictionary. That means it is also time, now seemingly an annual rite of passage, for the great debate over the demise, or liberation, of the English ...

In another sign that the digital world is permeating society, the Oxford American Dictionary revealed additions to its lexicon last week, adopting the language of texting, tweeting and social ...

Our days of grappling with the appearance of a red squiggly line underneath the word “selfie” when you type it in Microsoft World are coming to an end. Yes, “selfie” (and about 150 other words) have ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, Scrabble players are going to have some new words on their boards. The fifth edition of the game’s official dictionary includes 5,000 new words, according to ...