After tallying more than 37,000 votes from around the globe, the company on Monday announced the 2024 Oxford Word of The Year: "brain rot." A noun, 'brain rot' is defined as the assumed ...

For a third consecutive year, Oxford University Press is allowing the public to vote for the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year. Voting is open now until 10 a.m. Nov. 28. Oxford's experts will then ...

It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

The Oxford University Press uses lexicographers —people who author dictionaries — to track which words or phrases were most used and that most reflect the last 12 months. Brain rot’s usage increased ...

On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

According to Physician's Weekly, recent studies have linked excessive online content consumption to cognitive and mental ...

Believe it or not, the Word of the Year (sometimes abbreviated WOTY) is a common practice for a lot of people. Two of the most trusted word originators (Oxford University ...

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

“Brain rot” has been declared the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, reflecting a growing concern over the impact of excessive consumption of trivial online content on mental healt ...