After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced a Generation Alpha slang term is its 2024 word of the year, "brain rot." Here's an ...

The word, according to Oxford, has seen a 230 percent increase in usage between 2023 and 2024. But who decides what is the word of the year? Many dictionary organizations have issued their ...

It might have caused a bit of brain rot, a term which has actually been awarded Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year. After a public vote which saw over 37,000 people participate, ...

It’s not just you. Oxford University Press, the publisher of the august Oxford English Dictionary, is also going a bit fuzzy between the ears. After digging through its enormous database ...

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There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That’s right, we’re talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English ...

If yes, you might be experiencing what’s now famously called “brain rot”—a term that has been crowned Oxford Dictionary’s 2024 Word of the Year. Becoming a hot topic across the internet, “brain rot” ...

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The dictionary’s bestowed word for 2024 follows “rizz” last year, “goblin mode” in 2022, and “vax” in 2021. Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year is more than a century old, but that ...