There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words ...

Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year is more than a century old, but that doesn’t mean it ... But who decides what is the word of the year? Many dictionary organizations have issued their ...

The verbal encapsulation of 2024 explains everything from “shrimp Jesus” to disgusting viral recipes and clickbait headlines.

It might have caused a bit of brain rot, a term which has actually been awarded Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year. After a public vote which saw over 37,000 people participate, ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...

The first recorded use of “brain rot,” according to Oxford University Press, was in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, published in 1854. “While England endeavours to cure the potato-rot, will not any ...

Oxford University Press said the dictionaries' word of the year 2024 'brain rot' is linked with our obsession with endless ...