This is all enshittification. It was a big word last year too, the American Dialect Society picked it as the word of the year in 2023, but it’s gotten worse and we all feel it. Doctorow feels it ...

The Word-of-the-Year tradition dates back to at least 1990 when Allan Metcalf, former long-term executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, selected the society’s first-ever Word of the ...

B EFORE NAMING a word of the year, Johnson turns to colleagues to find out what those in different fields and in various countries are talking about. It is a salutary reminder that the world is ...

For the year’s defining word, it helps to look back—a long way. English has a host of political terms derived from Greek, because it got a lot of its political thinking from the likes of Plato ...

That people were turning to Merriam-Webster to verify new vocabulary could be read as a sign of progress. After all, 2022's word of the year belied a distrust of authority: gaslighting.

Oxford’s Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its continually updated corpus of some 26 billion words, which is drawn from news sources across the English-speaking world.

“Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year –– beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.” ...

What the hell is "rizz" anyway? Oxford's word of the year has infiltrated our language, beating out words like "Swiftie" (Taylor Swift super fans) or "situationship" (the in-between stage of dating).

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is one that saw an increase in searches this year – in a world where it's sometimes hard to tell what is fake and what is real online. The word they ...

He's the president of Oxford Languages, and he's had a hand in picking the word of the year for the last 20 years. GRATHWOHL: A lot of online communities and social media are driving word trends.

Earlier this month, Collins Dictionary named “brat” its word of the year, defining it as someone “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.” ...