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Zeitgeist in a word: Oxford's 2024 shortlist reflects a world in flux

As we barrel towards a generative AI-dominated future, the art of picking a word of the year will only get trickier

2022 in Review: Chaiwala to tiki-taka, 10 words that entered the dictionary

Here are 10 words that were included in Oxford English Dictionary in 2022

For Oxford English Dictionary, the word of the year goes full goblin mode

With the slang term beating out 'metaverse' and '#IStandWith,' has the publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary lost it like the rest of us?

Here's how Oxford zeroes in on its word of the year as people vote for 2022

As OUP leaves the word of the year to a people's vote, here's how the process works

In a first, people to vote to choose Oxford Word of the Year 2022

For the first time, people from across the world will vote to choose the Oxford Word of the Year 2022, Oxford Languages has announced. A team of expert lexicographers have narrowed down a longlist of worthy contestants to a final choice of three words -- metaverse, #IStandWith, and goblin mode. The voting, which started on November 21, will close on December 2. Last year 'Vax' was adjudged word of the year. "2022 has been a year defined by opening back up. However, although we have finally been able to physically reunite and come together again, our world somehow feels more divided than ever," Oxford Languages said. "In recognition of this shift, we wanted to open up the final step of our Word of the Year selection process to the true arbiters of language: people around the world... For the first time in its history, the 2022 Word of the Year will be chosen by the public," a statement said. The three words are each relevant to the year in a different way. In 'metaverse', there i

Here's why Oxford University Press named 'Samvidhaan' as Hindi word of 2019

The Oxford Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of attention and reflects the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past year.

Mamata paints her dissent against CAA, urges people to carry on protest

She was part of a group that had organised a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on Mayo Road, Kolkata

Oxford English dictionary to feature 26 news words, including Aadhaar

The 10th edition of the dictionary has 384 Indian English words and incorporates over 1,000 new words such as chatbot, fake news and microplastic

Why Oxford Dictionary's synonyms for 'woman' have triggered a protest

London resident Giovanardi was searching for synonyms for "woman" to name a project she was involved with when she came upon the derogative references

Oxford Dictionary declares the adjective 'Toxic' as Word of the Year 2018

The word toxic was selected from a shortlist that included contenders such as gaslighting, incel and techlash