On Friday, at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS) in New Orleans, a vote will be taken and the 2025 Word of the Year announced. The longest-running such enterprise—it began in ...

Artificial intelligence now sits on both sides of the climate equation, both problem and solution. Industrial AI is being hailed as the tool that can help solve the crisis, optimizing energy grids, ...

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

Image made with elements from Shutterstock and Canva. Several years ago, some eagle-eyed readers of scientific papers noticed an unusual trend—an increase in the number of abstracts using certain ...

It can feel like the rhetoric around AI is shifting as fast as its ability to generate content. In the English language education sector, we only need look to the recent past to recall how searching ...