Language has a shelf life. Slang especially. What sounds effortlessly cool in one decade sounds like a Halloween costume in ...

The Word of the Year is one that is rarely spoken. The word “hashtag” — the act of using a pound sign (#) followed by a word or phrase to tag a message on Twitter — was dubbed “Word of the Year 2012” ...

Later this week the American Dialect Society will announce its word of the Year. Renee Montagne discusses word contenders with linguist Ben Zimmer, who is the language columnist for The Wall Street ...

In 1990, the American Dialect Society named its first "word of the year" — a word (or phrase) chosen by a group of linguists and professors that encapsulates how Americans have been speaking for the ...

The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog” its WOTY for ...

English teachers may have to perform some damage control in American classrooms in 2014, because the American Dialect Society has chosen “because” as 2013’s word of the year, because…well, just ...

Fake Donald Trump tweets are seen in a Twitter timeline on 27 Friday, 2017. In China a site that generates fake tweets that look as if they were generated by US president Donald Trump are being used ...

As the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21, experts in Morocco are ...