“UK children pick ‘anxiety’ as their word of 2021”—blares a headline in The Guardian. Of course they did, we mutter morosely. Have you seen Euphoria? The kids aren’t alright. But… Read more »

Last year we wrote about the annual tradition that is Collins English Dictionary word of the year, as chosen by lexicographers since 2013. Following on from last year’s winner “single-use,”… Read more »

Annually in the UK, the Collins English Dictionary, published by HarperCollins, pick their ‘word of the year’. They have been producing dictionaries since 1819 and currently maintain a database of… Read more »

As we learned last week, the election has brought a number of new words into the public consciousness. We also learned that the results of the 2016 US Presidential Election seem to indicate that… Read more »

Merriam-Webster has revealed its word of the year and, in what appears to be a fast-growing tradition, it is not technically a word. Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is a… Read more »

In its perhaps most reflexive Word of the Year selection, Oxford Dictionaries has chosen the laugh/cry (or “Face with Tears of Joy”) emoji to represent 2015. It is, indeed, kind of… Read more »

Collins Dictionary has named “binge-watch” as 2015’s Word of the Year. The term, which the dictionary defines as, “To watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from… Read more »