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

Only reason you looked forward to coming back to work was to escape screaming kids and the 67 trend? Think again.

The Oxford English Dictionary's latest update adds popular Nigerian words like amala, abeg, and nyash, reflecting the growing ...

Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Discover the Word of the Year 2025 selections from leading dictionary websites like Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and Dictionary.com. Learn the defining words and their meanings.

From “rage bait” to “aura-farming,” tracking words on the rise this year reveals how the internet and AI are reshaping ...

As 2025 data-collection ends, new lists begin. Several on-line dictionaries have released their “words of the year” and those ...

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

This slang term stands for a common phrase that is used when someone gets what’s coming to them or finally sees the ...

That’s when London countered back that she was “pretty big on words” as that’s how she makes a living and Newton—refusing to ...

The digital dictionary is the result of decades of sustained efforts to safeguard the language, says activist Rita Lasimbang.