To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

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Google is turning one of its most familiar products into something that sounds far more like a human interpreter than a phrasebook. Instead of spitting out stiff, literal phrases, the latest version ...

Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che told the coldest joke of the night during “Weekend Update,” at the expense of Trump’s alleged health problems. “This week, President Trump claimed that ‘affordability ...

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The Irony of a Monstrous Word At 36 letters long, it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.

The quest to define and canonize new words in American English is as old as the country itself. In the new book "Unabridged: ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University are assembling what they say will be the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...

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