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Culture

Trying to Make Sense of 'Rizz,' Oxford's Word of the Year for 2023

Do you have rizz? Are we too old to ask that question?

So you think you have rizz? To the common millennial (ouch), it feels like such an unserious word. The under-30s of the world have decided that we must honor its colloquial cache. But it is serious, serious enough to be named ...

Lifestyle

Apparently, 2022's Word of the Year Was '-ussy,' Says the American Dialect Society

We're living through the great "-ussification" of our society.

We've been seeing the "-ussification" of the world recently. It's become a phenomenon in many ways, and not just for Generation Z. Out of the shadows of the Twitter- and TikTok-verse, the suffix "-ussy" has now been recognized by ...

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