SEOUL, Jan. 8 (UPI) --The Oxford English Dictionary has added eight words drawn from South Korean culture in its latest quarterly update, reflecting the continued influence of Korean food, customs and ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

Associate Dean and Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor , University of Memphis AI slop – which can range from a saccharine image of a young girl clinging to her little dog to career advice ...

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to ...

It’s a love story. The term “parasocial” has just been named Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 word of the year — and its popularity was partly inspired by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement. The ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial ...

Cambridge Dictionary defines “Parasocial” as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on "parasocial," used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don't know - or even with an artificial ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

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 ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

For a Word of the Year, this selection might be kind of so-so. Or it might be completely meaningless. Welcome to the slang term 6-7, selected by dictionary.com as its Word of the Year for 2025. Anyone ...