This gem of a poem by Emily Dickinson is a good place to start. Reading it draws attention to the nature of language and the use-it-or-lose-it principle that tends to shape a word's lifespan. Some ...
PART ONE Merriam-Webster named "polarization" the word of the year in 2024. Hopefully, by identifying a problem, the country ...
Our politics are widely declared to be polarized — “polarization” was Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year — but I don’t think that’s true. A few years ago, I engaged cross-sections of Americans ...
Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many celebrate it with crosswords ...
The word 'kindness' has been chosen as the Children's Word of the Year following a survey by Oxford University Press (OUP). More than 3,000 children aged six to14 were asked for their suggestions ...
And on the day I am writing these words, it’s also my birthday ... frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of Merriam-Webster Dictionaries, clearly understood ...
The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog ...
More than half of children (61%) said kindness was their chosen word of the year for 2024. 'Artificial intelligence' came second, chosen by a quarter (25%) of children surveyed. When it comes to ...
And there you have it, a fleek (perfectly done) sentence using all four 2024 Words of the Year — polarization, manifest, demure and brain rot — from Merriam Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary ...
Indeed, the biodeutsch moniker has become so prevalent that a panel of judges voted for it to be Germany's non-word of the year - or Unwort des Jahres - in 2024. Criticising the concept of ...
who shares her experience attending the American Dialect Society’s words-of-the-year vote. Then, Candice and Kate break down 2024’s winners (the WOTYs), and predict what internet words we’ll ...
Last year was the hottest the Earth has experienced since the start of global temperature records in the mid-1800s – and likely for many thousands of years before. The year 2024 was the first in which ...