Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Ghost,” “side-eye” and “facepalm” are now ...

In Andrew Clements' children's book "Frindle," the main character invents the word "frindle" to replace "pen." Frindle becomes so ubiquitous that by the end, when he is all grown up, the word is added ...

Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced it will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when the 12th edition of the Collegiate Dictionary hits bookshelves on Nov. 18 — marking its first new ...