After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

Editor: If we judge 2025 by just the new words that have entered the lexicon in the past year we’re certainly in a Brave New World. One that is certainly bizarre and inscrutably opague. According to ...

As 2025 comes to an end, lexicographers, linguists and some ordinary people who love observing how languages evolve come up with the words they believe defined social trends and global events this ...

Many people loathe “big words”. Why say “subsequent” when “next” does the trick, right? Well, it could be argued that those “big words” are actually intrinsic to how we, as people, communicate. They ...

OTTAWA - The federal broadcast regulator has released a new definition of Canadian content — and it says artificial intelligence can’t qualify. The new definition maintains the same approach as the ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

Dictionary.com's most recent Word of the Year is actually a number. The online dictionary named "6-7" as the 2025 Word of the Year Oct. 28. The word — or, rather, number — has become a popular slang ...

With a couple months to spare, Dictionary.com announced its Word Of The Year on Wednesday. “Word” is being used pretty loosely here, as the winner of this prestigious honor is really number(s), and ...