"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication." The post Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop” ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, Merriam-Webster is out with a new edition of its "Collegiate Dictionary." The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds.

People made a terrible fuss when Dictionary.com named “6–7” its word of the year. Brain rot, people said. Language has gone to hell, others decried. Our children are illiterate, still more wailed. (My ...

When Merriam-Webster announced its Word of the Year was "slop," it made sense - at least from the perspective of someone who reports on the ins and outs of social media.

“They kind of use it like it means 'either or,'” Fortune said, noting the hand gesture she sees kids use along with the term, where they place their palms up and move them alternately up and down. “'6 ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

The Green Belt — an 860-mile corridor along the former border between West Germany and communist East Germany — was once one of the most dangerous places in Europe. Now it’s a haven for wildlife. Some ...

A lake in Massachusetts nearly claimed a rare language honor. Merriam-Webster named "slop" as its word of the year for 2025 this week, but editors also gave a special honor to a local name that has ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

From ‘rage bait’ to ‘parasocial’ to ‘vibe coding,’ 2025’s picks trace an internet-era feeling of exhaustion, skepticism — and figuring out what’s real ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.