word of the year

Merriam Webster Dictionary has made it official. Gaslighting is their 2022 word of the year. The choice is understandable, given its frequent use in the news as well as on social media. The expression actually first came into use in 1944,...

Each year, Collins English Dictionary chooses ten words or phrases to define a specific period. This year's top word is half-Greek. Well, it’s 2022, so there is a new term that has now been picked that describes the feeling of...

Every year, of course, has its buzzwords -- often amusing, sometimes frivolous, they come to epitomize what the last 365 were all about, for good or ill, for the world as a whole. This year, which presented an almost never-ending...

The Association for the German language has announced that "refugee" is the word of the year in Germany. The Word of the Year was chosen from about 2,500 words and expressions that became popular in 2015. "Refugees have had inseparable connections...