For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

As 2025 data-collection ends, new lists begin. Several on-line dictionaries have released their “words of the year” and those ...

What has been true since the beginning of time is still true today: It’s only human intelligence that can save us from slop.

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

Analysis shows obscure and barely-used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time ...

The Cambridge Dictionary declared 'parasocial' as its Word of the Year in 2025, noting that lookups and public conversation about one-sided emotional bonds surged across news and social platforms. The ...

The dominance of words like slop, vibe coding, glazing, paraoscial and clanker shows that AI is now playing a huge role in ...

OpenAI alum Andrej Karpathy wrote on X that his failure to fully claim the 10x boost of new tools felt like a "skill issue." ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.