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

Some people might describe 2025 as "sloppy" in more ways than one. Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word ...

Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the last year.

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

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

Euronews Culture takes a look back at some of the biggest cultural trends that have shaped global fashion, social media, ...

In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop' (via ...

Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

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