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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Women's March on Washington, The Handmaid's Tale, and the #MeToo movement all shaped Merriam-Webster's 2017 Word of the Year: "Feminism." Though other politically charged words were certainly ...

LONDON-- Oxford Dictionaries recognized the power of the millennial generation Friday with its 2017 word of the year : youthquake. Oxford lexicographers say there was a fivefold increase in use of the ...

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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 ...

No, we haven't heard of it either. Oxford Dictionaries' Casper Grathwohl told the BBC it was "not an obvious choice." But, the word has increased in usage "fivefold," especially during the UK's ...

It's now time for our regular segment Words You'll Hear. That's where we try to understand some of the stories we'll be hearing more about by parsing some of the words associated with those stories.