“Brain rot” has been declared the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, reflecting a growing concern over the impact of excessive consumption of trivial online content on mental healt ...

The choices, and the sometimes stark differences between them, provide a glimpse into how different regions’ experienced the ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) has named ‘brainrot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, following a public vote that saw more than 37,000 people worldwide have their say. ‘Brain rot’ was one of the ...

Doom scrolling is a contributing factor to brain rot. It describes binging on news or social media content involving ...

According to Physician's Weekly, recent studies have linked excessive online content consumption to cognitive and mental ...

The Oxford University Press uses lexicographers —people who author dictionaries — to track which words or phrases were most used and that most reflect the last 12 months. Brain rot’s usage increased ...

On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...

Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

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

Believe it or not, the Word of the Year (sometimes abbreviated WOTY) is a common practice for a lot of people. Two of the most trusted word originators (Oxford University ...

The Oxford University Press has for the last two decades looked at and declared the words of the year. According to the OUP website, “Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had ...