(WXYZ) — As we approach the end of the year, Merriam-Webster has released its list of the 10 "words of the year" for 2019. The Word of the Year for 2019 is "They ...

A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, "they," has an accolade all its own. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based ...

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If your 2019 went anything like ours, it sounded a lot like this: “What is happening? What does it all mean? How long will the human species stay alive if the planet’s on fire?” They’re all powerful ...

What do these words tell us? That it’s Generation Z’s world now – and if it’s not already, then it should be soon. Generation Z, which the Pew Research Center defines as those who are currently ages ...

Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...

Babbel, a language-learning app, released its list of the most mispronounced words in 2019. Celebrities' names made the list, such as soccer captain Megan Rapinoe, activist Greta Thunberg, and Mayor ...

GULSTAN: HOW DID THAT GET THROUGH? WELL, MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY ANNOUNCING WORDS OF THE YEAR. ARE YOU READY? THE NUMBER ONE WORD, THE PERSONAL PRONOUN "THEY." THERE HAS BEEN A 313% INCREASE IN ...