The Daily Star

Where is my dictionary?

The recent internet blackout in Bangladesh put a spotlight on an often-forgotten tool: the dictionary. For writers and anyone who relies on crafting basic-level English communications, the lack of ...

How ‘6-7’ became Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year. And what it really means

Dictionary.com has selected a word of the year for 2025 that is not even technically a word – it's more of an inside joke ...
Gizmodo

Olds, Now You Can Look Up ‘Yeet’ in the Dictionary Instead of Asking the Youth

While I have not considered myself part of the Youth for quite a few years now, I did not yet feel like I was an Old—until today, when I found out that Dictionary.com had added the word “yeet” to its ...
The Conversation

Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here’s how your brain stores and retrieves words

Nichol Castro does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
CNN

Dictionary.com has named its word of the year, and it isn’t ‘brat’

“Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year — beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.” In an announcement Monday, ...
The Atlantic

Is This the End of the Dictionary?

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...