Oxford Dictionaries

The 2016 U.S. presidential election has had a major impact on Americans in a number of ways. Oxford Dictionaries just selected “post-truth” as the 2016 word of the year. According to Oxford, campaign rhetoric associated with the U.S. election was the primary driver of the selection. '...

Britain's Oxford University Press is adding a bunch of words to its online Oxford Dictionaries. Many of the words -- such as amazeballs ("extremely good or impressive") and neckbeard ("a growth of hair on a man's neck") -- sound like the names of rock bands. Side...