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Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a ...

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The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...

Manifesting freedom from brain rot’ and other attempts to encase our aspirations in words” FOR several years now, at yearend, ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

Webster dictionary, while a 2023 Pew Research Center poll finds ‘divisive’ most commonly describes US politics ...

Yes, some slang certainly makes its way across the Pacific. But the history between the two versions of the English language ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

It seems to come earlier every year: publishers and dictionaries choosing their “word of the year”. Initially intended to sum ...

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