So 2019 was wordy. Many can't be repeated in a family newspaper. But what were the words that defined the year? There were inclusive words anchoring the gains of social change in our language. There ...

Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...

Back in September, the Merriam-Webster dictionary added a new definition of the word "they," including its use "to refer to a single person whose gender identity is non-binary." And now, "they" has ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The end of every year brings retrospectives on language from many dictionary editors and word aficionados. Their selections are ...

Merriam Webster released its top-searched for words during the 2019 year and here’s what searchers most commonly looked up. In more recent times, they has also been used to refer to one person whose ...

GULSTAN: HOW DID THAT GET THROUGH? WELL, MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY ANNOUNCING WORDS OF THE YEAR. ARE YOU READY? THE NUMBER ONE WORD, THE PERSONAL PRONOUN "THEY." THERE HAS BEEN A 313% INCREASE IN ...

NEW YORK — The word ‘they,’ which was officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a nonbinary pronoun in September, has been named the word of the year for 2019. Peter Sokolowski, a ...