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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 ...

The word, according to Oxford, has seen a 230 percent increase in usage between 2023 and 2024. But who decides what is the word of the year? Many dictionary organizations have issued their ...

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Editor David Cannadine takes us behind the scenes at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) to examine why this late Victorian Institution with thousands upon thousands of detailed and ...

Goodbye, "goblin mode." Hello, "rizz." Folks, we've done it again — as a collective, we've pushed the esteemed Oxford English Dictionary into making a slang term its word of the year.

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Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, explains that modern dictionaries aim to record how language is actually used by people, and are based on a huge ...

Five years after the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 29 Nigerian loanwords, 20 more terms from Nigeria and Ghana have ...

“Brain rot” has been declared the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, reflecting a growing concern over the impact of excessive consumption of trivial online content on mental healt ...

It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...