What started as a meme has now become the Word of the Year for 2025. Yes, the phrase “6 7” — pronounced by kids far and wide as “six SEHV-un” — was crowned this week as Dictionary.com’s Word of the ...

“Meme,” coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, has been used in Times articles about genes, stocks and of course, Bernie Sanders. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of genes ...

Skrilla's viral hit "Doot Doot" has earned recognition from Dictionary.com after the website named the bizarre "6-7" meme its word of the year. Every year, the publication names its word of the year ...

From Pepe the Frog to the Arthur Fist, millions of memes are shared on the internet every day. There’s no doubt that memes have rapidly grown to be a fundamental part of social media, but what do the ...

The said meme, which is a format-dependent joke, usually of a picture with a subtitle or caption, had a printed date of 1919 and 1920, but it was believed to have been published in 1921. The meme had ...