Many of the words that came to be in the 1970s have become staples in today's vocabulary while others have simply faded out of fashion. Using Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature, Stacker compiled ...

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Popular Wordle clone Quordle is now a part of Merriam Webster. The game has been one of the more popular Wordle-like games out there, probably because it offers a slightly tougher challenge than the ...

The bombshells still explode. No more hyphen in email (Phoenix, 2011). Over is allowed, as a synonym for “more than” (Las Vegas, 2014). Most hyphens are gone after prefixes (San Diego, 2024). Now, the ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

"Slop" was the word of the year, and it's not just AI-generated images we have to groan about. Reading time 7 minutes When Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage at the company’s big, splashy I/O ...

Merriam-Webster has chosen "slop" as its biggest buzzword of the year. The US dictionary publisher says the word reflects a growing frustration — and fascination — with poor-quality generative AI ...

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, landed it ...

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, landed it ...

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...