It wasn’t even a year ago when the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) named “brain rot” its 2024 Word of the Year, capturing the zeitgeist of internet humor and Ge ...

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary.

The Cambridge Dictionary has added over 6,000 new words including slang terms like “skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, ...

As you might be able to guess from the previous sentence, 2025 appears to have marked a new low in terms of dictionary additions. Each year, the Cambridge, Oxford and Collins dictionaries release a ...

“Brain rot” is the 2024 Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, adding to a growing list of Internet-specific words chosen by dictionaries as words of the year.

Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project Salon talks to Sarah Ogilvie, author of "The Dictionary People," about the "unsung heroes" who ...

The Oxford English Dictionary included 18 new words related to gender identity throughout 2022 out of their more than 2,000 additions to the English language.

The story of the OED’s most prolific contributor, a sex-addicted murderer who lived in an insane asylum.

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

The dictionary just announced several new additions to its vast pages, including St. Louis’s favorite word, “Zyzzyva,” which now has the unique distinction of being the OED’… ...

Language is constantly evolving and dictionaries are always trying to capture the latest additions to how we communicate. Queer language moves quickly and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED ...