12/02/2024

Summing up 2024

The Oxford University Press word of the year is ‘brain rot’

Many of us have felt it, and now it is official: "brain rot" is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year.

Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new prominence in 2024,” with its frequency of use increasing 230 percent from the year before.

Oxford defines brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Associated Press.