I’d stumbled across the Pine Wizard Frog—a recurring character on the official TikTok account of household cleaning fluid ...

My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

I'm a parent and teach writing. Watching my kids adopt new slang gives me a window into how expressions go viral, burn out, ...

Skibidi toilet. Six seven. Tralalero tralala. Unc. Chopped. Aura. Sigma. Gyatt. Rizz. These slang words echo in the brains of educators, parents and older siblings. Middle schoolers today constantly ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you are parenting in 2025 and your kid owns a device, you might recognize this real-life convo as just ...

"To be, or not to be, that is the question." So mused Hamlet in Shakespeare’s timeless prose, a line that has echoed through centuries as a pinnacle of linguistic elegance. Fast forward to 2024: ...

The organization counted more than 37,000 votes, analyzed language data and conducted a worldwide discussion before whittling down the list of contenders to the term “brain rot.” The usage, according ...

Every night, I curl up in bed with a good book, ready to unwind from a day’s worth of brain-scrambling classes, 20-minute hikes to and from North Campus and enough homework to prematurely gray my hair ...

“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. The term is ...

Institutions associated with publishing have announced lists of words that stand out from the previous year for one reason or another. Oxford University Press declared “brain rot” to be its “Word of ...