American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has for fifty years included a regular collection of neologisms called "Among the New Words." A recent issue, for example, includes four ...
For decades youngsters have created words to distinguish themselves from adults. On social media such neologisms find a big audience. Mr Ilbury describes this as “linguistic identity work ...
The precautionary approach and precautionary principle are neologisms coined by opponents of technology who wish to rationalize banning things they don't like, such as gene splicing, cellular ...
Collins Dictionary declared "brat" — the album title that became a summer-living ideal — its 2024 word of the year. The word, used by singer Charli XCX as the title of her sixth studio album, has been ...