"Brain rot" is the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year, adding to a growing list of Internet-specific words that are chosen by ...

Usage of the word soared after TikToker Jools Lebron used it in her signature catchphrase "very demure, very mindful." ...

Which word captures the spirit of 2024: “brain rot” or “enshittification”? Both have been highlighted by separate dictionary publishers as words that reflect the zeitgeist of the past year – and both ...

The word “demure” has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 Word of the Year, largely due to the creativity of TikToker Jools ...

Hunter Biden faced sentencing in two criminal cases when his father, U.S. President Joe Biden, issued a presidential pardon ...

I think everyone is tired of election talk, and frankly, I am too. So this week, I’ll focus again on one of my favorite topics: education. Specifically, learning more about our language. I went to the ...

A quick check of my go-to dictionary, Merriam-Webster.com (sorry, Cambridge), shows that manifest is actually used as three ...

The word that got viral popularity, especially amongst the Gen Zs in 2024, has its earliest usage traced back to the Middle English period (1150–1500), where it is recorded as an adjective, and its ...