Amid historic flooding in Venice, Italy, and catastrophic bushfires decimating Australia's koala population, Oxford has named its 2019 Word of the Year "climate emergency." The historical dictionary ...

A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, "they," has an accolade all its own. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based ...

Climate emergency is the 2019 Oxford Word of the Year, highlighting the growing evidence of climate change, the efforts by citizens to reduce their own carbon footprints, and the increased demands of ...

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 ...

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Greta Thunberg delivers brief remarks surrounded by other student environmental advocates during a strike outside the White House. Getty Images UK-based Collins Dictionary has declared “climate strike ...

Merriam-Webster declares the personal pronoun "they" their word of the year based on a 313 percent increase in look-ups in 2019. By The Associated Press A common but increasingly mighty and very busy ...

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 ...