That dictionary’s second-place word of the year, though? Brain rot. Leaning into internet slang terms is far from new. Last year, Oxford picked “rizz” as its word of the year, a term ...

The dictionary’s ... According to Oxford, the word was first used in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden. But in 2024, the term is finding a new meaning as people are surrounded by ...

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 ...