Discover the Word of the Year 2025 selections from leading dictionary websites like Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and ...

NEW YORK — Attention, word nerds: This is your bonus round, courtesy of Merriam-Webster. In addition to elevating “surreal” in 2016 to word of the year, the dictionary company on Tuesday added about 1 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

Author and software engineer Thomas Dimson has created an AI dictionary that generates fake words and definitions. The project, like many similar ones released online recently, uses sophisticated AI ...

Oxford University Press has changed the definition of the word "woman" in its dictionaries after an online petition called on them to remove "sexist" language. Oxford lexicographers examined ...

It has been said over and over again: Words mean something. They have definition and definition matters. As Aristotle chided, “How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

The Collins English Dictionary defines the word “woman” as “an adult female human being.” But this past August, a tempest began on Twitter when a user posted two responses written to people who had ...

The update to the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "woman" came after a Change.org petition demanded it. (Photo: Getty) The Oxford English Dictionary has updated its definition of the word ...

Many say that the success and stability of Western Civilization is predicated on observance of the rule of law. True enough. Having laws in place that are meaningful and enforced provides clarity and ...

Thanks to the evolution of language, technology, and lots of hyperbole, these words used to convey a lot more merit, emotion, or simply seriousness than they do nowadays. Ah, “genius.” Once reserved ...