Kai Cenat is earning praise from fans for candidly sharing his reading journey and looking up words he doesn’t know how to ...

Former Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Lady London went viral for their exchange on his Funky Friday podcast.

Social media users became enamored with rapper Lady London’s graceful response to Cam Newton’s ‘Nclecta’ vocabulary. We are ...

Abeg' and 'nyash' are common mainstream words from Nigeria and have now been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...

Ever belted out a song at full volume, only to discover later that what you’d been confidently singing was completely, ...

On January 1, Lake Superior State University (LSSU) announced its annual list of banned words and phrases for 2026. Among the ...

Yawn. I’m not tired — just eye-rollingly unimpressed. Why, you ask? Well, it’s about the words of the year. Just like all of ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, Merriam-Webster is out with a new edition of its “Collegiate Dictionary.” The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds. WBUR’s ...

The word “nascent” comes from the Latin words nascentem (nominative nascens), meaning “arising young, immature,” and the ...

It could be argued that the internet is the best possible medium for dictionaries. For one thing, there’s unlimited space for ...