House”, reveals that a clewner is a high-ranking villain, and the dance is a hanging. Bouse makes an appearance—another of the oldest slang words that is still in robust use today, says Mr Green, ...

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The rapper known as Kay Flock has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 arrest.

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies ...

From ‘rage bait’ to ‘parasocial’ to ‘vibe coding,’ 2025’s picks trace an internet-era feeling of exhaustion, skepticism — and figuring out what’s real ...

Clinical words and phrases often work their way into doctors’ everyday language, sometimes without them realising. Nikki Nabavi reports Doctors are known for our use of jargon, acronyms, and myriad ...

From geopolitics to planetary emergency, from pandemic to internet culture, the Oxford Word of the Year has been a thing of global attention ...

I thought of this while leafing through Sam McCool’s New Pittsburghese: How to Speak Like a Pittsburgher. Published by Goodwill Industries in 1982, the booklet uses a dictionary-like approach to cover ...