PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...

Scroll through social media long enough, and you’ll find no shortage of “supercilious” takes. This isn’t referring to the silly reels you would find on Instagram, but rather those posts dripping with ...

Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London It seems to come earlier every year: publishers and dictionaries choosing their “word of the year”.

(NEXSTAR) — It’s an announcement many of us saw coming, one we warned about late last month. You could say the writing was on the wall six, seven weeks ago. The slang that has found its way into ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67 ...

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster ...

Associate Dean and Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor , University of Memphis AI slop – which can range from a saccharine image of a young girl clinging to her little dog to career advice ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...