It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

Yes, some slang certainly makes its way across the Pacific. But the history between the two versions of the English language is more complex than you might think.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines retirement as the "act of leaving your job and stopping working, usually because you are old ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said its name can be pronounced using “aitch” or “haitch” to respect diversity and different ...

Every year, we eagerly wait for end-of-year highlights: Spotify Wrapped, Artist Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, the best movies, top travel destinations, and more. Now, dictionaries have revealed another ...