Last month, on Nov. 14, Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words and the world had the opportunity to vote for its favorite. Language experts from the publishing house of the ...

Oxford University Press releases a Word of the Year annually. For 2024, they’ve technically chosen two words. “Brain rot” was selected using voting, public commentary and language data analysis. The ...

Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year is more than a century old, but that doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly relevant in 2024. The winner, announced on Monday by the University of Oxford, was “brain rot” — a ...

In the year of creative language like "Barbenheimer," "Swiftie" and "yeet," one word has risen to the top as the word that captures 2023. The Oxford University Press announced Monday the 2023 Word of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Many of us have felt it, and ...

Brain rot describes overconsuming low quality social media content. Casper Grathwohl of Oxford University Languages discusses how brain rot was selected. MARTÍNEZ: OK, I know I have a little, but that ...

Oxford University Press has released its shortlist for the 2024 word of the year. Every year, the publisher of the multivolume Oxford English Dictionary taps their lexicographers to analyze the ...

FADEL: OK, but what's the word? MARTÍNEZ: OK, I know I have a little, but that's the word, the Oxford Word of the Year. FADEL: OK, sorry, but that's two words. MARTÍNEZ: Well, thank you, Ms. Obvious.