In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...

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

The Cambridge Dictionary declared 'parasocial' as its Word of the Year in 2025, noting that lookups and public conversation about one-sided emotional bonds surged across news and social platforms. The ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

The dominance of words like slop, vibe coding, glazing, paraoscial and clanker shows that AI is now playing a huge role in ...

The rise of vibe coding brings real promise. It can open programming to a wider audience, build tech literacy and eliminate ...

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

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 ...

Language moves quickly across every generation. However, the words that Gen Z is using, whether because of TikTok or group ...

In fact, our Q2 2025 Pulse Survey found that 41% of global social users plan to spend more time on Substack, rising to over ...