After tallying more than 37,000 votes from around the globe, the company on Monday announced the 2024 Oxford Word of The Year: "brain rot." A noun, 'brain rot' is defined as the assumed ...

It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...

LONDON — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 healt ...

According to Action News Jax, Oxford University Press has picked its word that sums up the year 2024. The usage, according to ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) has named ‘brainrot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, following a public vote that saw more than 37,000 people worldwide have their say. ‘Brain rot’ was one of the ...

The Oxford University Press has for the last two decades looked at and declared the words of the year. According to the OUP website, “Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had ...