In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

The rise of vibe coding brings real promise. It can open programming to a wider audience, build tech literacy and eliminate ...

The dominance of words like slop, vibe coding, glazing, paraoscial and clanker shows that AI is now playing a huge role in our lives ...

You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately ...

Language moves quickly across every generation. However, the words that Gen Z is using, whether because of TikTok or group ...

This year's pick from Oxford University Press comes after 'Brain Rot' was named last year's word of the year - about the ...

You can prompt an AI model with a line of text, and it will generate most of the code needed to build an app, tool or website ...

Perhaps the most contentious choice in 2025 was “6-7,” chosen by Dictionary.com. In this case, the controversy has to do with the actual meaning of this bit of Gen Alpha slang. The editors of the ...

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies ...

We speak with a professor in Wales who's working on an ancient Celtic dictionary.

Ask five mortgage professionals to define “MISMO,” and you’re likely to hear five different answers …Data format.Investor ...