My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

Skibidi toilet. Six seven. Tralalero tralala. Unc. Chopped. Aura. Sigma. Gyatt. Rizz. These slang words echo in the brains of educators, parents and older siblings. Middle schoolers today constantly ...

"To be, or not to be, that is the question." So mused Hamlet in Shakespeare’s timeless prose, a line that has echoed through centuries as a pinnacle of linguistic elegance. Fast forward to 2024: ...

“Brain rot” has been declared the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, reflecting a growing concern over the impact of excessive consumption of trivial online content on mental health. The term is ...

The organization counted more than 37,000 votes, analyzed language data and conducted a worldwide discussion before whittling down the list of contenders to the term “brain rot.” The usage, according ...

Every night, I curl up in bed with a good book, ready to unwind from a day’s worth of brain-scrambling classes, 20-minute hikes to and from North Campus and enough homework to prematurely gray my hair ...

Institutions associated with publishing have announced lists of words that stand out from the previous year for one reason or another. Oxford University Press declared “brain rot” to be its “Word of ...

Slop, rap beef, brain rot and, yes, “hawk tuah” — what a year it’s been on the internet. The colloquial definition of memes has expanded to include any type of viral internet phenomenon, including ...