Style guides have made recent updates to their punctuation rules. Grammar columnist June Casagrande suggests ...

In short, the modern degendering of English is continuing a centuries-long trajectory—gradually, in terms of its grammar, but ...

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Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it.

There's only one correct way to spell it, y'all.

Merriam-Webster has a cool Internet presence and the English dictionary routinely shares nifty English lessons on X. Yes, the dictionary we have grown up using and loving has over a million followers ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

Merriam-Webster has named 'slop' its Word of the Year for 2025, reflecting frustration with AI-made content. The choice has mirrored how people mocked, consumed and complained about digital clutter ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

Merriam-Webster has chosen "slop" as its biggest buzzword of the year. The US dictionary publisher says the word reflects a growing frustration — and fascination — with poor-quality generative AI ...

Merriam-Webster declared "slop" its 2025 word of the year on Monday, a sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence. Slop is now defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced ...