Newser on MSN

Parents Will Hate Dictionary.com's Word of the Year

Dictionary.com has named "67"—that's "six seven," not sixty-seven, as anyone with a tween or teen knows—its 2025 Word of the ...
WISN 12 News on MSN

6 7 becomes word of the year. What does it mean?

The meme is pronounced "six seven," not "sixty seven," like most would think, and has become a cultural phenomenon for Gen ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Huh? Interjections Are Critically Important to Communication

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...
Psychology Today

Allow Me to Interject

Some parts of speech get lots of attention from language researchers. Nouns and verbs certainly do, and this seems appropriate, given that they refer to the objects and the actions that make up our ...