Jan Baptist Weenix, “Ancient Ruins” (n.d.), oil on canvas, 80.5 x 68.3 cm, Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (image via Web Gallery of Art) This week, NATO was obsolete until it wasn’t. Either war is ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

You can’t call someone a frutescent snollygoster anymore—at least not officially. Those words have been deleted from the dictionary, so you’ll have to come up with alternate terms to describe a ...