Despite not even being a year old, the term vibe coding has been named word of the year by Collins English Dictionary, beating other contenders such as ‘bio hacking’ and ‘glaze’. The term was coined ...

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

As we step into the last week of the year 2025, it is hard not to pause and reflect back. The year 2025 was both turbulent and transformational. It moved so fast that there was hardly any time to ...