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Gilbert was only nine when she auditioned for the role of Laura Ingalls Wilder. In 1974, she was chosen from hundreds of ...

Cambridge Dictionary chooses parasocial as the Word of the Year 2025. Learn its meaning, origin, examples, antonyms, synonyms ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...

According to Oxford, the term "rage bait" was first used online in 2002 in reference to the reaction of a driver who is ...

Brainrot term "67" (pronounced six seven) is believed to have originated from rapper Skrilla's song "Doot Doot (67)," ...

Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with ...

This year's pick from Oxford University Press comes after 'Brain Rot' was named last year's word of the year - about the ...

"Rage bait is a compound of the words rage, meaning a violent outburst of anger, and bait, an attractive morsel of food. Both ...

Modern progressive political narratives depend heavily upon the misuse of words, changing their meaning in hopes that people ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University are assembling what they say will be the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.