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The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

Every year, people all over take part in a simple yet powerful tradition—choosing a single word to define and guide their ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them?

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The dictionary, which is one of the most ambitious linguistic projects in Arabic history, represents over a decade of scholarly work.

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The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

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Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, ...

A couple of the most mysterious scriptures in the Bible; John 1:1 reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was ...

The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...