Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

Oxford, producer of the famous dictionary and expert in languages, has selected the internet slang "rage bait" as the word of the year. It means "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger ...

I came of age online. LiveJournal and Tumblr were fixtures for me in the early 2010s, when Harry Potter fan-fiction was written at warp speed and Tumblr had not yet banned adult content. In those days ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

TEEN talk is so bad it's sick. As a rough translation, that means it's great. If you're a teenager. If you're a parent, on the other hand, it is quite literally bad – a foreign language that leaves ...

Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025 is another Gen Z slang. Oxford University Press announced "rage bait" as Oxford ...

Confused by modern dating talk? We decode the latest Gen Z slang, from 'beige flags' to 'rizz,' that has replaced old terms ...

Fans of Anthony Burgess know that the famed English author loved playing with language. While writing his seminal novel A Clockwork Orange (1962)—which director Stanley Kubrick later adapted into a ...

It's corking good stuff. “The potential of an online dictionary has to go beyond that of even the greatest print lexicons,” says the 68-year-old dictionary maker, who has been studying, collecting and ...