language Brain Rot is Oxford's word of the year Rob Beschizza

language Dictionary of Eggcorns: words mispelled as other words Rob Beschizza

dictionary 'Fluffernutter' is now an official Merriam-Webster dictionary word Rusty Blazenhoff

COVID-19 "Pandemic" is the Dictionary.com word of the year. Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Dictionary searches for "Schadenfreude" were up 30,500% after Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis Thom Dunn

racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

dictionary Get a paper dictionary Rob Beschizza

dictionary 'Single-use' edges out 'VAR,' 'floss,' 'gammon,' and 'plogging' as this dictionary's word of the year Rusty Blazenhoff

Culture Learn when a word was first used in print with Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature Rusty Blazenhoff

books How do new words get in the dictionary? Andrea James

words Meh, cisgender, jeggings, and other new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary David Pescovitz

language Old English word of the day Rob Beschizza

science fiction 'They're Made Out of Meat,' rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs Ellsworth Toohey

erase racism 'The hood is off': Virginia Republican steps onto America's most obvious rhetorical landmine Jason Weisberger

public health Here are some terrific resources tracking the "Andes" hantavirus outbreak Jennifer Sandlin

maps Bedfordshire chosen as England's worst county Rob Beschizza

art This clock sorts the 43,200 times of day alphabetically Ellsworth Toohey

security Anti-AI security expert tries Claude Code. It worked. He hated it Ellsworth Toohey