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Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...

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Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...

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