Essay: Merriam-Webster’s word of the year – authentic – reflects growing concerns over AI’s ability to deceive and dehumanise
ROGER J KREUZ, professor of psychology at the University of Memphis, looks at why 2023 represented what some have called a “crisis of authenticity”…
‘Pandemic’ chosen as Word of the Year
New York City, USReuters The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website, after a year in which at least 1.4 million people globally have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. People walk beneath […]
STRANGESIGHTS: WORDS OF THE YEAR; A LIVING CHRISTMAS DECORATION; AND, A PIE IN THE SKY…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…