As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition. On Dec. 15, the leading expert in language announced that “slop” had earned the title of word of the year for 2025. In case ...
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Some people might describe 2025 as "sloppy" in more ways than one. Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year, the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company announced on ...
Interjections play an important role in communicative as well as non-communicative contexts, and their actual linguistic value and role were underestimated and misjudged for quite a long ...