Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The R-word is making a comeback. Once pushed to the margins of acceptable language thanks to campaigns like "Spread the Word to ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

WASHINGTON — The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world — or were cause for celebration, depending on who you ask. Is it any surprise ...

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Getty Dictionary.com has announced that its 2025 Word of ...

PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...

SOME YEARS it is hard to identify the main event, much less sum it up in a word. This is not the problem in 2024; the return of Donald Trump to the White House after a four-year absence is ...