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A lake in Massachusetts nearly claimed a rare language honor. Merriam-Webster named "slop" as its word of the year for 2025 this week, but editors also gave a special honor to a local name that has ...

In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop' (via The Associated Press). In a blog post, the dictionary and reference book ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

The announcement was made ahead of schedule, with Merriam-Webster president Greg Barlow discussing the decision in an interview with The Associated Press. He said the word captured how people were ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," Merriam-Webster said.