The easiest pangram of 2025 was flapping, found by 99 percent of players. The hardest pangram was philhellenic, which means ...

Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

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"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

In a language full of straightforward synonyms for “positive,” one word stands out for its surprising double-meaning: “sanguine.” How did a term that once described the bodily fluids governing human ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The North Carolina State Highway Patrol celebrated the graduation of 55 new troopers. The ceremony was held at The Sheperd's Church in Cary. The 166th Basic Highway Patrol School ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to find a word for “those privileged neologisms that ‘stick’ and become part of ...

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 ...