My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

Skibidi toilet. Six seven. Tralalero tralala. Unc. Chopped. Aura. Sigma. Gyatt. Rizz. These slang words echo in the brains of educators, parents and older siblings. Middle schoolers today constantly ...

Oxford University Press has announced "brain rot" as its word of the year for 2024. The publishing house says "brain rot" was selected through consultation with its language experts and a public vote ...

Oxford University Press just announced its always-anticipated word of the year. No, it’s not some pretentious jargon only uttered by the world’s top thinkers. It’s a trendy expression that won’t ...

The digital landscape of 2025 has officially cemented a new linguistic era. Language has always been a fluid entity, but the ...

LONDON — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new prominence ...

Institutions associated with publishing have announced lists of words that stand out from the previous year for one reason or another. Oxford University Press declared “brain rot” to be its “Word of ...

Every night, I curl up in bed with a good book, ready to unwind from a day’s worth of brain-scrambling classes, 20-minute hikes to and from North Campus and enough homework to prematurely gray my hair ...

Oxford University Press has officially dubbed "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed ...

“Brain rot” has been declared the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, reflecting a growing concern over the impact of excessive consumption of trivial online content on mental health. The term is ...