However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...
(NEXSTAR) – It’s not just you; almost no one knows how to pronounce “acai.” That’s the major takeaway from a recent study conducted by Unscrambled Words, which sought to determine the words, terms or ...
(NEXSTAR) — Are you sure that’s how that word is supposed to be said? The English language, which pulls from a slew of others, is chock-full of words that many aren’t sure how to pronounce. English is ...
The Merriam-Webster account on X, known for snappier and snarkier posts than are usually associated with dictionary publishers, recently managed to provoke some ire from the Irish by answering its own ...
It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The dictionary defines the term as "digital content of low quality that is ...
Runners up included "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative" and "tariff." It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The ...
If a weird-looking talking cat on the internet tells you to “touch grass” in a meandering congressional district, and then performatively sings the numbers “6-7,” those are the words of 2025. “Slop,” ...
The English language, which pulls from a slew of others, is chock-full of words that many aren’t sure how to pronounce. English is one of a linguistic family known as “Indo-European” languages, which ...
(NEXSTAR) — Are you sure that’s how that word is supposed to be said? The English language, which pulls from a slew of others, is chock-full of words that many aren’t sure how to pronounce. English is ...