There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

Grody was initially spelled groaty, in the mid-1960s, and it’s basically used to describe something that’s slovenly, dirty, ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

Despite increasing threats to the European Union from waves of illegal migrants, a large energy dependence on Russia, and ...

When Indiana adopted new U.S. House districts four years ago, Republican legislative leaders lauded them as “fair maps” that ...

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: ...

Google is upgrading Translate with Gemini-powered context-aware translations, live speech translation through headphones, and ...

And the frontrunner in the battle for most befuddling political concepts of the 21st century is: "woke" or "wokeness." We ...

Will we still be speaking in an English we recognise in a thousand years' time? Alice and Neil make some educated guesses!