Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

This name combo pits two extremely contradictory concepts of style, values, and leadership against each other in a way that ...

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This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

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Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year, the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company announced ...

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A growing surge of fake or weird content online often called ‘slop’ has been named Word of the Year 2025. The Merriam-Webster ...