Former FBI Director James Comey is under investigation for sharing a photo of shells displayed in the shapes of "86 47." ...

adjunct assistant professor in Columbia University's writing program and formerly editor-at-large for the Oxford English ...

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Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — Gigil The Oxford English Dictionary has included a list of ...

Oxford Dictionaries lexicographers also identified a sharp increase in the use of the word emoji itself in 2015. Emoji is a loanword from Japanese defined as “a small digital image or icon used ...

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 ...

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The word of the year for 2023 is "rizz," according to the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary ... the independent and sexually clued-in icon from the 1970s film Grease?

the world’s second-oldest academic press and the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, has rizz. Or at least, like the rest of us over a certain age, it’s trying to get some.

Collins, a British dictionary, also noted nine other words ... Then, there are those like literary icon Stephen King, who see these young words and know exactly what to do with them.

As 2022 nears its end, dictionaries are chiming in on the word that best that encompasses the year. And according to Oxford Dictionaries, "goblin mode" is the 2022 word of the year. The company ...

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