New word of the day: tremendomeatatarianism. A tremendomeatatarian is someone who only undertakes to eat meat that is “tremendously delicious”.
The tremendomeatatarian respects the fact that his food came from a living being, which died to provide him with dinner, and which may have suffered or be rare and overfished. Or perhaps it’s bad for [...]

Words and terms such as “d’oh”, “regift”, and the Wayne’s World-ian use of “not” (this is a new word – not!), rather than being relatively new, have merely emerged from hiatus, according to study of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
“Truthiness” is a great example of a sleeping beauty. Seemingly coined in the debut episode of [...]

Alex Horne writes about his quest to have a word he invented accepted into the Oxford English Dictionary.
Just thinking about having my own word in the Oxford English Dictionary gets me giddy. A verbal invention would represent the ultimate achievement, the finest legacy to leave my progeny. It’s exciting enough to have people look [...]

15 words that Lake Superior State University proposes be banished from the Queen’s English. Don’t stop there though, purge these terms from standard English, Australian English, in fact all forms of English…
Word “czars” at Lake Superior State University “unfriended” 15 words and phrases and declared them “shovel-ready” for inclusion on the university’s 35th annual [...]

The last ten years have spawned quite an array of new words and phrases.
These words and expressions were all coined in particular parts of the world in specific years: they’re principally slang and jargon; catching on, but still waiting to be formalised into our dictionaries.

The social networks have birthed a new official word – unfriend – being the act of removing someone from your friends list on a site like Facebook or MySpace.
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is [...]

A list of nine everyday, relatively common, words that take their origin from science fiction works rather than science itself.

Male evolution is increasing at ever faster speed it seems, with the arrival of the neosexual… who is a kind of Batman type, BUT who has a happy disposition and a sense of humour.
The demographer and author of Man Drought, Bernard Salt, said men had to reinvent themselves for new generations, as women called the [...]

Wordsmiths and neologism seekers – or creators – the Addictionary is for you.
As an example of the fare on offer, check out Wednesday’s word of the day, which was “telekillesis”:
noun, the psychic ability to kill a person with your mind.

John Allsopp and the word webinar. He says it far better than I ever could…
Anyone out there not think it is one of the ugliest words ever?