There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That’s right, we’re talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English ...

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With the Oxford University Press aiming to encapsulate the zeitgeist of 2024, brain rot feels like the perfect term to describe a year dominated by endless doomscrolling, viral memes, and TikTok ...

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Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries ... for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary chose ...

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She typified “brain rot,” a term the Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced as its “Word of the Year” for 2024. According to the official statement by the dictionary, it is “the supposed ...

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