That crowdsourced compilation of online slang you probably know is becoming a go-to resource for the courts. Is this reasonable, or terrible?
There's a word we keep seeing in the news of late, a word it seems like we weren't supposed to say in mixed company, much less in "family" newspapers. Now it's everywhere—or, at least, in way more places than it used to be.
Last week I wrote of a shift that's occurring in gendered pronouns: More she and her, less pronoun domination by he and him, as per a recent study from a professor at San Diego State. Today, we take on the I. And me. And you, too.
We're in a brave new world of bragging, people. Everyone does it everywhere! But the brag-brag is over, and so is the humblebrag. Enter the underbrag, the brag to rule them all.
Tuesday, the penultimate day of 2012's National SCRABBLE Championship in Orlando, Florida, the venerable event was hit with a scandal. Cheating!
It's the time of year in which we get new words in the dictionary! Not in our "despicable words" dictionary, to which of course you're welcome to contribute, but in the actual Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
Last week, Jen Doll compiled a 'Dictionary of Despicable Words.' The German words zeitgeist and schadenfreude didn't make her initial list, but our readers overwhelmingly disdained them. All except for one.
Researchers have been tracking pronouns by gender to see what shifts in our use of these tiny little words says about larger views of women in society.
Years from now when we think back to the early times of the decade of 2010, we will surely think of a new wave of Internet-life in which complete and total social media immersion really began. And we'll also think of the exclamation point.
The following A to Z list of most-disliked words is culled from your comments, emails, tweets, and occasionally from our own strong opinions. Actually, honestly, we're not even kidding, honey.
There is a very important question being tackled again by certain smart people of the Internet, and that question is this: What, exactly, is the worst word on the entire planet?
Have you used a zombie noun today? Hang your head in shame, because you're part of the problem.
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