Drum roll please… The Word of the Year for 2025 has finally been revealed. “Brat” was last year’s pick after Charli XCX absolutely dominated the music and pop culture industry. Other previous words of the year include Brexit, binge-watch, lockdown and fake-news. Drum roll please… “vibe coding” has been crowned Collins Word of the Year […]

5 months ago

Did… AI write this? Collins Dictionary has named AI, the abbreviation of Artificial Intelligence, as its word of the year for 2023. According to Collins, the term describes “the modelling of human mental functions by computer programs”. They added that the term has seen “rapid development” in 2023. The rise of AI language models like […]

2 years ago

Fitting. Collins Dictionary has named Climate Strike as their 2019 word of the year after the form of protest took off in 2019 thanks to activists like Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion. The choice was revealed in a list of new and notable words compiled by Collins lexicographers. Climate Strike was first recognised in 2015 when a […]

6 years ago

Who do they think they are? Batman? Merriam-Webster, a publishing company famous for its dictionaries, has chosen its word of the year. And that word is: justice. Okay. Don’t get me wrong, we all love justice, but it seems to me that picking it for your word of the year really makes it seem like […]

7 years ago

In fact, the full top ten of the most important words of the year are here for you to peruse and use more often. Every year, the Collins Dictionary’s lexicographers monitor the 4.5 billion-word Collins Corpus to create the annual list of new and notable words that reflect the culture of the world and people […]

8 years ago

If you like a perfectly-timed photobomb as much as us, then you’ll love this super selection…

12 years ago