The words are added to the online dictionary first ... meaning of “someone who is overly sensitive”, according to Merriam-Webster’s definition. Some of the words have been around for ...

FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all ...

Between endless doomscrolling and nonstop negative headlines, a New Mexico political science professor said it's no surprise ...

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

LAST week in this column, the phrase "greener pastures" – an idiom that means a better or more promising situation ...

“Brat” is no longer negative. It now means an “estetik” trend defined by party-animal antics, cool-girl style and messy ...

Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School more than a century ago. The struggle for ...

“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers ... particularly online content, considered trivial or unchallenging.

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

The popularity of Wordle has also inspired spin-offs and clones. Variants like Quordle (four puzzles at once), Heardle (a ...

Cap/No cap: To "cap" means to "lie, to boast, or to front," according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (although ... The origin comes from online comedy creator Fanum, who is a part of streamer ...