word of-the-year

Merriam-Webster: ‘Surreal’ Is the Word of the Year for 2016. Merriam-Webster announced Monday that “surreal” is its top Word ...
Snopes.com

Was 'Twerk' Added to the Oxford English Dictionary?

Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word "twerk" to its collection. The addition came after Miley Cyrus' widely discussed performance at the MTV Video ...
Town & Country

The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town ...
Bizcommunity

South Africa’s newest dictionary responds to teachers’ call for locally relevant language resources

Oxford University Press South Africa (Oupsa) has introduced the Oxford School Dictionary and Vocabulary Builder, the first ...
The New York Times

Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...
People

'Rizz' Is Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year – Here’s What it Means

The viral term beat out top finalists "prompt," "situationship" and even "Swiftie" Alamy Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz.” Dictionary publisher Oxford University Press defines the viral term, ...