An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them?

“Yinz” is essentially Pittsburgh’s version of “y’all.” It’s used as a second-person plural pronoun, so someone living in ...

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While spending Christmas with her younger cousins, influencer Livvy Dunne joked about her name being a 'brainrot term,' ...

Florida lawmakers are criticized for legislation allowing charter schools to use public school facilities for free. Proposed ...

Merriam-Webster has chosen 'slop' as its 2025 Word of the Year, a linguistic reflection of the growing prevalence of low-quality digital content generated by artificial intelligence. The selection was ...

Traditionally, slop referred to soft mud, waste food, or other messy, valueless substances. But in 2025, the word has taken ...

Parliament debates the BJP's Hindi-centric Bill titles as Tamil and Bengali MPs resist cultural imposition and assert regional identities.

Hot-rodding is an iconic American automotive pass-time, but such a specialized hobby has no shortage of jargon and lingo — ...

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company said. “People found it annoying, and people ate it ...

From 'batch' to 'mardy', these local dialect words and sayings are used daily across Coventry and Warwickshire - find out ...

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