The rising impact of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) left a lasting impact on language in 2025 as terms related ...

The emojis from Netflix's crime drama series Adolescence piqued global curiosity towards incel subculture. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian ...

The Globe has compiled eight words we feel best encapsulate 2025, whether you’re always thinking of AI, buying Canadian, or ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Dictionary.com‘s Word of the Year is one that few can define. The online reference tool announced on Oct. 29 that “6 7” is its word of the year. If you don’t know a school-aged kid, you probably ...

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its ...

Skibidi, broligarchy, inspo, delulu, and more terms have officially joined the Cambridge Dictionary in its growing list of new 2025 words. Some of the dictionary’s latest inclusions, which you can now ...

Companies can no longer afford to ignore the use of emojis in the workplace, and should take steps to update their social media policies. This was some of the main takeaways from a webinar titled, ...

EmojiTracker was built to gather usage statistics of emoji. API changes following Twitter’s sale in 2023 broke the site’s old functionality. Emojipedia has now managed to get things running again with ...

Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year isn’t quite a word and it doesn’t technically have an official name, but we’ve all used it recently. The “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji is the 2015 word of the ...

In the arenas of ancient Rome, the thumbs-up was a matter of life and death. So scholars have extrapolated from the elusive history of ancient gestures. The fates of defeated gladiators were ...