This is the time of year when the dictionary makers proudly announce the changes they've made in their offerings in their continual attempts to stay up with linguistic changes. The obvious reason ...

LONDON — Once a slur reserved for eggheads and an insult aimed at lovers of computer programming, geek has been deemed the word of the year by the Collins online dictionary. Less brazen than selfie — ...

There was a time when the word "geek" conjured unflattering images of bespectacled targets of school bullying, and sad memories of proms never attended. Now, it's a beloved moniker — so much so that ...

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The word geek, once used as a slurto describe a person with unfashionable interests or a social misfit, has now been declared the 'word of the year' by the Collins online dictionary. The word geek, ...

Hundreds of years ago, the term geek wasn't as benign as it is today (high fives all around, gang). In 18th-century Austria-Hungary it was synonymous with freak — literally, used as the word for ...

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Hello, Readers. I write to you as a Geek and a Mom. You may guess the focus of my geekiness when I confess to obsessing over the capitalization of those two nouns in the previous sentence. That’s ...

The word geek, once used as a slur to describe a person with unfashionable interests or a social misfit, has now been declared the 'word of the year' by the Collins online dictionary. The dictionary ...

It's official – the geeks have taken over. Collins Dictionary have announced that they've changed the definition of what a geek is from something negative to a compliment – "a person who is very ...