Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

People made a terrible fuss when Dictionary.com named “6–7” its word of the year. Brain rot, people said. Language has gone ...

From “rage bait” to “aura-farming,” tracking words on the rise this year reveals how the internet and AI are reshaping ...

While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just ...

Discover the captivating charm of "va-va-voom," an informal English phrase embodying excitement, attraction, and charisma.

I was a 16-year-old single mom facing domestic abuse. What chance did I have? Not much, except for determination and teachers ...

But this is much more than the most useful, readable, and accurate desk dictionary you can find. Ever since the first edition was published thirty-five years ago, the Webster's New World permanent ...

Abeg' and 'nyash' are common mainstream words from Nigeria and have now been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

This is the fifth of eight voiceless consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its lexicon for 2026 with the inclusion of 22 new expressions drawn from ...

Will we still be speaking in an English we recognise in a thousand years' time? Alice and Neil make some educated guesses!