The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.

Merriam-Webster took the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries. New words include ...

Merriam-Webster has fully revised its popular “Collegiate” dictionary with over 5,000 new words. They include “petrichor,” ...

In the same vein, I just found out that the word “buttload,” often used colloquially to mean “a large amount,” actually has its roots in Old English as a wine measurement.

More than 5,000 new words have been added to the 12th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. They include "rizz, ...

Are you OK? Or are you okay, okie, okiii, okai or kk? If you text, you already know that each of those responses mean vastly different things. You know, without taking a Coursera lesson on the subject ...

The English language is always changing, and now a major dictionary has made the increasing use of social media terms official. The Cambridge Dictionary has added over 6,000 new words to its online ...

Skibidi, delulu and tradwife joins Cambridge Dictionary. Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash Gen Z slang is moving from internet culture into formal recognition, signalling how digital platforms are ...

If you've been left baffled by hearing young people in your life describing everything and anything as 'skibidi', you are not alone. According to a study by the Oxford University Press, 15 per cent of ...

Words popularised by Gen Z and Gen Alpha including "skibidi", "delulu" and "tradwife" are among 6,000 new entries to the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary over the last year, its publisher ...