Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

has topped a viral list of “banished” words for 2026, being joined by cooked and gifted as some of the words that people no ...

The phrase topped LSSU's list of banished words for 2026 but was also named Dictionary.com's Word of the Year. The reference ...

Struggling to describe the moment when you come across something cute? Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

Logophiles are “devastated” after Dictionary.com deleted their logs of favorited words that they carefully crafted for years. The company deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

If two weeks on a sunlounger, pinballing between the cocktail bar and the pool, were once the go-to summer getaway for British holidaymakers, it seems times - and tastes, have changed. The latest list ...

From dropped words to fake definitions, learn fun facts, hearsay, and scandal about our most useful language resource, and the words that make it up. You might be surprised to learn what the most ...

Who’s your favorite rapper? How often do they say something that makes you press pause and hit up a dictionary? In 2014, scientist and New Yorker Matt Daniels concocted a study tabulating the amount ...