From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these ...

Adam Aleksic talks about his new book 'Algospeak,' which details how algorithms are changing our vocabulary; plus, we check ...

The brainchild of Slate’s Dan Kois, built by a team of in-house developers and designers, Pears is a word game for people who know their way around a dictionary and the internet. If a word is part of ...

New words can come into being in a variety of ways. The speakers of one language, for example, might borrow terms from another if there is no one-word equivalent for a particular concept, as was ...

For instance, the new season of the Squid Game series has been released, and you don’t have time to watch it. Here, you can silence certain words for 30 days.

But its popularity is undeniable. An entry for the term was recently added to Among the New Words, a dictionary that is part of a quarterly installment of the journal American Speech.

President Donald Trump took credit for creating a new word after issuing an executive order to lower drug prices in the United States. But the word has been used for centuries.

In that fleeting moment, a new word came into being. Little could Wreford-Brown, who was to grace the game for so long afterwards, have realised how the word would finally ring around the world.” ...