The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

The prestigious UK publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to ...

Don't get too upset, but 'rage bait' has been named by Oxford University Press as this year's Word of the Year, beating other online terms. The group behind the Oxford English Dictionary says the term ...

Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or ...

The word refers to low-quality content created by generative AI which often contains errors and is not requested by the user. A technology innovation expert says AI slop is "making its way upstream ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years.

Dictionary.com has revealed its Word of the Year, and it is a phrase that Gen Alpha will instantly recognize. The website announced Oct. 28 that after narrowing down its shortlist of nominees, the ...