The terms, which started as online slang, are expected to have staying power. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A gibberish word, a gender-regressive label and the shorthand for delusional thinking have all ...

Social media has become impossible to escape – and now its influence has made its way into the dictionary. Slang terms popular on the internet, such as 'skibidi', 'tradwife' and 'delulu', are among ...

LONDON – A gibberish word, a gender-regressive label and the shorthand for delusional thinking have all been added to the Cambridge English Dictionary in 2025, speaking volumes about the current ...

Among the 6,000 or so words added to the dictionary over the past year, these internet neologisms have now asserted their place in the English language, whether you like it or not. Most of these words ...

The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.

"Skibidi", "tradwife", "delulu" and other slang terms popularised by social media are among thousands of new words to be added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. Several phrases were also added, ...

Words popularised by Gen Z and Gen Alpha including "skibidi", "delulu", and "tradwife" are among 6,000 new entries to the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary over the last year, its publisher ...

Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang terms “skibidi,” “tradwife” and “delulu” are among the 6,000 new words that have been added to the world’s largest online dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary. Skibidi, a ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has added thousands of new words this year 2025, including trendy slangs such as “Skibidi” and “tradwife”, showing how social media is reshaping the English language. Skibidi ...

The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its entries for “man” and “woman” to include transgender people – the latest dictionary to broaden its lexicon to reflect evolving language around gender. A ...

“Skibidi” is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary. “Internet culture is changing the English language and ...

On Wednesday, Cambridge Dictionary announced that its 2023 word of the year is "hallucinate," owing to the popularity of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, which sometimes produce erroneous ...