After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced a Generation Alpha slang term is its 2024 word of the year, "brain rot." Here's an ...

WE don’t know if this is good or terrible news, but manspreading is here to stay. A long with hangry, fatberg, and mic drop, it’s been added to the Oxford dictionary. It’s all NBD, but these are just ...

Today Oxford University Press has announced that it will add a handful of new words and expressions originating from Internet culture to its Oxford Dictionaries Online dictionary. Now, when your less ...

It’s not just you. Oxford University Press, the publisher of the august Oxford English Dictionary, is also going a bit fuzzy between the ears. After digging through its enormous database, it has ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

If you thought twerking was nothing more than a tragic phase that would one day thrust itself off of the dance floor and out of our vocabulary — you, dear friends, were wrong.

A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are among the latest to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Chollagh", ...