If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition. On Dec. 15, the leading expert in language announced that “slop” had earned the title of word of the year for 2025.

Merriam-Webster has added 200 new words and definitions to its dictionary. The new additions are added based on widespread use over time, and offer a window into the world today, according to ...

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that it has chosen “they” as the 2019 word of the year. The singular “they” is a pronoun used to refer to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary, a word that ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- Merriam-Webster has named “slop” its word of the year for 2025, a term that has evolved from ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year – and what it means.

At a time when words matter, one dictionary has emerged to school us all: Merriam-Webster. With eyes glued to press briefings and testimonies, people are turning to dictionaries to find out what ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, ...