English has more words than almost any, if not every, other language on Earth – and you don’t get that way by being static. From Shakespeare to skibidi toilet, every generation has added their own vocabulary to the lexicon – and dictionary-makers have scrambled to keep up. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The result: annual lists of often thousands of new words which have made it into various official ledgers over the past 12 months. And this year is no different, as Cambridge Dictionary has just released its 2025 compilation of 6,212 new arrivals to the club, including such poetics as “delulu”, “broligarchy”, and “slop” – as in the stuff churned out by AI, rather than the stuff that slides off your plate into the ga

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