“Brain rot” has been declared the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, reflecting a growing concern over the impact of excessive consumption of trivial online content on mental health.

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

The choices, and the sometimes stark differences between them, provide a glimpse into how different regions’ experienced the ...

The Oxford University Press uses lexicographers —people who author dictionaries — to track which words or phrases were most used and that most reflect the last 12 months. Brain rot’s usage increased ...

Doom scrolling is a contributing factor to brain rot. It describes binging on news or social media content involving ...

On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...

According to Physician's Weekly, recent studies have linked excessive online content consumption to cognitive and mental ...

Believe it or not, the Word of the Year (sometimes abbreviated WOTY) is a common practice for a lot of people. Two of the most trusted word originators (Oxford University ...

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

There are already many nominations for 2024's word of the year. The right pick is the name of the world's most controversial ...