A time capsule containing predictions from students in 2000 on what words would be popular in 2025 was recently unsealed.
The winner, chosen at random from nearly 14,000 correct solution submissions, is Stephanie Golowacz. Stephanie lives in Wheaton, IL with her husband and two cats. In her spare time (other than doing ...
Great words for 2024 The runner up for Children’s Word of the Year was artificial intelligence. This perhaps conveys the focus given to the development of technology, to creativity and to a ...
That’s why the Community Justice Centre is proud to present “Moving Beyond Polarization: The Courage to Dialogue in Divided ...
As we enter year four of the “Beyond Transfer” blog, we reflect on lessons learned and commit to finding unity in the pursuit of better outcomes for students through cross-sector collaboration, policy ...
The word 'kindness' has been chosen as the Children's Word of the Year following a survey by Oxford University Press (OUP). More than 3,000 children aged six to14 were asked for their suggestions ...
who shares her experience attending the American Dialect Society’s words-of-the-year vote. Then, Candice and Kate break down 2024’s winners (the WOTYs), and predict what internet words we’ll ...
More than half of children (61%) said kindness was their chosen word of the year for 2024. 'Artificial intelligence' came second, chosen by a quarter (25%) of children surveyed. When it comes to ...
This gem of a poem by Emily Dickinson is a good place to start. Reading it draws attention to the nature of language and the use-it-or-lose-it principle that tends to shape a word's lifespan. Some ...
Indeed, the biodeutsch moniker has become so prevalent that a panel of judges voted for it to be Germany's non-word of the year - or Unwort des Jahres - in 2024. Criticising the concept of ...
The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog ...
And there you have it, a fleek (perfectly done) sentence using all four 2024 Words of the Year — polarization, manifest, demure and brain rot — from Merriam Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary ...