The first recorded use of “brain rot,” according to Oxford University Press, was in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, published ...

There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That’s right, we’re talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary is the longest English variant of its kind in the ...

The dictionary’s bestowed word for 2024 follows “rizz” last year, “goblin mode” in 2022, and “vax” in 2021. Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year is more than a century old, but that ...

Many of us have felt it, and now it's official: "brain rot" is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase "gained new prominence in ...