That dictionary’s second-place word of the year, though? Brain rot. Leaning into internet slang terms is far from new. Last year, Oxford picked “rizz” as its word of the year, a term ...

Goodbye, "goblin mode." Hello, "rizz." Folks, we've done it again — as a collective, we've pushed the esteemed Oxford English Dictionary into making a slang term its word of the year.

A new list of Nigerian words has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), extending the scope of the country’s rich cultural legacy. The new words depict an average Nigerian’s daily life, as ...