A data scientist compiled over 200,000 song lyrics and compared it to everyday usage of the English language to arrive at the most and least metal words.
Oxford Dictionaries has announced the latest words that it is adding to its database, and if you're a teenager who's spent his life on the Internet, you'll recognize many of them.
Want to impress your friends and family by sounding more intelligent? How about appearing like a master of the English language on your next job interview or blind date? On the other hand, maybe your friends will just consider you a pretentious blowhard when you use the following words and phrases. Wow, I was able to use the word 'pretentious' in a sentence correctly!
After a yearly increase in usage of 17,000 percent, "selfie" was crowned 2013's Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries, following last year's winner "gif" and beating out the Miley Cyrus-endorsed "twerk," among others.