The wonderful world of Oz is chock-full of oddities and made-up words that you might have missed during your first watch of Wicked because you were too distracted by Jonathan Bailey’s smile and ...
The company published a list of the most mispronounced words of the year in the United States and the United Kingdom on Wednesday, including foreign words that have entered the English lexicon for ...
Clear writing clearly isn’t jargon; it’s glorious writing. At least, that's what the word's origins tell us—"clarity" comes from the Middle English sense of glory or divine splendor.
From Sabrina Carpenter's hit song Espresso to a newly discovered Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf, the most mispronounced words of this year have been revealed. The list was curated by ...
The term was first seen in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau's book "Walden." Oxford University Press has officially dubbed "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot is defined as "the supposed ...
There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...
If you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary. After public consultation ...
Perhaps above all else, it was a brat year. That is according to the dictionaries around the world, which like to name a "Word of the Year" as a way to recognise global trends. These words have ...