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Sometime in the early aughts, the comedian Amy Poehler made a vulgar joke while sitting in the Saturday Night Live writers’ room waiting for a midweek read-through to begin. As detailed in Tina Fey’s ...
Words like “skibidi,” “delulu,” and “tradwife” are now part of the global lexicon. However, for many Ghanaians, these new ...
TikTok lexicon has made the big time, with 2025 seeing new words such as ‘skibidi’, ‘tradwife’ and ‘delulu’ make it into this ...
What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary.” ...
Wendalyn Nichols, Cambridge Dictionary Publishing Manager, joins us to explain why “Skibidi”, “tradwife”, and “delulu” have ...
Cambridge Dictionary has decided to add ‘skibidi’, ‘delulu’ and ‘tradwife’ to its hallowed pages, proving that even the most venerable institutions now bow to TikTok trends. The editors insist these ...
The trad-wife lifestyle has gone viral, and it's affecting real-life marriages. A Reddit user on the r/amitheasshole ...
The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...
Cambridge defines skibidi as “a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad,’ or can be used with no real ...
Tradwife thrillers put an eerie spin on influencers promoting "traditional" marriage and gender roles. Here are 7 books we ...
The dictionary has added over 6,000 words and phrases this year including many terms that have become popular online like ...