Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

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Scientists of the Northern Arctic Federal University made an audio collection of 500 most commonly used words in different dialects of the Nenets language in the Nenets Autonomous Region, the ...

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

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The word "slop" was first used to refer to soft mud in the 1700s, but has since evolved to mean of little value — especially when referring to online content of low quality that's made with artificial ...

Dictionary.com named '6-7' as its word of the year for 2025, describing the term as 'meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical ...