Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with the inclusion of several Nigerian words and expressions in its ...

Oxford Dictionary had added Nigerian words like nyash, amala and mammy market, reflecting the growing global influence of ...

Language rarely announces its turning points. It does not ring bells or call press conferences. It shifts quietly, carried by ...

The December 2025 update, released on the OED website on Wednesday, features over 500 new words, phrases and tenses, ...

Before we used the internet, these words meant something else entirely. Read on to learn the original meaning of 10 everyday ...

People made a terrible fuss when Dictionary.com named “6–7” its word of the year. Brain rot, people said. Language has gone ...

How do new words like “safe space,” “dogpile,” and “alt-right” make it into the dictionary? Journalist Stefan Fatsis finds ...

If you had any doubt that social media have taken over our lives, the words of the year (WOTY) for 2025 will dispel it—with ...

It could be argued that the internet is the best possible medium for dictionaries. For one thing, there’s unlimited space for ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Last year's word of the year was brain rot, a term many people used to describe being chronically online.

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