For a third consecutive year, Oxford University Press is allowing the public to vote for the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year. Voting is open now until 10 a.m. Nov. 28. Oxford's experts will then conduct ...

The first recorded use of “brain rot,” according to Oxford University Press, was in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, published ...

(AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File) LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

It was in Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book "Walden." But "the term has taken on new significance in the digital age," Oxford U ...

Oxford University Press has declared its word of the year for 2024 after the phrase saw a staggering 230 percent increase in usage.