This year has been jam-packed with news from politics to culture to technology. Guest host Ray Suarez speaks with linguist Ben Zimmer about this year's frontrunners for the American Dialect Society's ...

2016 was a dumpster fire. Last year was the year of fake news. That's according to the selections made in the American dialect Society's annual word of the year contest. Fake news was named the word ...

NEW YORK -- This may or may not come as a surprise: Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017 is "feminism." Yes, it's been a big year or two or 100 for the word. In 2017, lookups for feminism ...

It’s not fake news. The American Dialect Society’s 2017 Word of the Year is: “fake news.” The society chose the phrase on Jan. 5, which they defined as “disinformation or falsehoods presented as real ...

1. To architect. Ivanka Trump got what was coming to her, via countless book reviews, columns, and tweets, for embracing (though sadly, not inventing) the year’s worst neologism—architect as a ...

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Say these out loud: Bokeh. Coulrophobia. Dotard. Did you pause? You’re not alone. Each year, new words make their way into the national conversation, either through a news event or big moment in pop ...

Last year many pop culture stars, including Last Week’s Tonight’s John Oliver, used a slang term that first emerged on the internet to describe 2016: Dumpster fire. Words and phrases like this are ...

The ball has dropped in Times Square, the champagne bottles have been emptied, and the calendar page has been turned. But before we close the Curiosity Desk’s book on 2017, we have one more item of ...