“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued ... a virus never ...

It seems to come earlier every year: publishers and dictionaries choosing their “word of the year”. Initially intended to sum ...

LAST week in this column, the phrase "greener pastures" – an idiom that means a better or more promising situation ...

Manifesting freedom from brain rot’ and other attempts to encase our aspirations in words” FOR several years now, at yearend, ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

Words don’t stop coming and dictionaries continue to add hundreds of newfangled words to their pages and online databases every ...

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This Word of the Year (WOTY) has been chosen every year since at least 1990. According to Dictionary.com, “These words serve ...