Ben Yagoda, an American author and retired professor of English, started writing a blog in 2011 that examined what he called ...

Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated ...

The Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year is ‘parasocial’, which describes the one-sided connection that people feel ...

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Cambridge Dictionary has a new entrant, which is also the Word of the Year 2025 - Parasocial. It in essence means a lopsided ...

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