Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...
A look at the Oxford English Dictionary 2025 "word of the year," viewed by a person old enough to actually own, sort of, a ...
The latest OED update shows how quickly language changes as new cultures, online trends and everyday expressions enter global ...
And for those thinking Oxford is rage baiting them by declaring two words to be the word of the year, the publisher explained ...
The world is rapidly moving forward with new trends, technology and lifestyles changes and even our vocabulary continues to grow.We are witnessing the emergence of hundreds of new and unique words ...
Cambridge Dictionary names 'Parasocial' 2025 Word of the Year, citing Swifties reaction to Taylor Swift's engagement, viral streamers, AI chatbots.
The Economist ’s choice for 2025 is a single word. It is representative, if not of the whole year, at least of much of the ...
Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...
Mark Franke, M.B.A., an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review and its book reviewer, is formerly an associate ...
In June, as Black Lives Matter protests were in full swing after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a dictionary definition made headlines. The definition that drew so ...