For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren't just a fun peek into ...

This year, or in February 2025 to be precise, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of ...

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

Agentic automation (more commonly known ‘vibe coding’) has certainly been booming in popularity, beyond even just the developer space, with Collins Dictionary calling it the word of the year and even ...

The dominance of words like slop, vibe coding, glazing, paraoscial and clanker shows that AI is now playing a huge role in our lives ...

As 2025 data-collection ends, new lists begin. Several on-line dictionaries have released their “words of the year” and those ...

Aya, a Ba Na woman from Gia Lai, built a digital Kinh–Ba Na dictionary with nearly 6,000 words to preserve her native ...

LIMERICK, Ireland: For us linguists, the flurry of “word of the year” announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren’t ...

From ‘rage bait’ to ‘parasocial’ to ‘vibe coding,’ 2025’s picks trace an internet-era feeling of exhaustion, skepticism — and figuring out what’s real ...

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