Massive congrats to all involved. ‘Single-use’ has been named the Word Of The Year 2018 by Collins Dictionary. The word refers to disposable products such as plastic that are made to be used once and are then thrown away. This year saw an influx of companies, restaurants, and bars commit to limiting their use of […]
7 years ago
How cromulent. A word first heard on the Simpsons has made it into the dictionary in the United States. ‘Embiggens’ was used in the episode ‘Lisa the Iconoclast’, which aired originally in 1996. At one point, the children at Springfield Elementary are shown a video of the town’s founder, Jebediah Springfield. During the footage, Springfield says: “A noble […]
8 years ago
You learn something new every day. If you were to text a friend in a surprised response or spell out the word ‘woah’, you’d probably use that version, right? Some people use ‘wow’ as an alternative but ‘woah’ is the most common. Well, it turns out that’s not the right way to spell it at […]
9 years ago
The Oxford online dictionary has announced 300 new editions. Some of the words are a little ‘craptastic‘ , but in general we’re not ‘haterading‘ on many of them. Ok we’ll stop. Some of the words are food related such as aquafaba and superfruit (we probably won’t use those), but we can definitely see Squadgoals and […]
9 years ago
It does describe a lot of what happened this year
9 years ago
How many of them do you know?
10 years ago