‘Brain Rot’ Is the 2024 Word of the Year, According to Oxford University Press
The first recorded use of “brain rot,” according to Oxford University Press, was in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, published in 1854. “While England endeavours to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?” wrote Thoreau in his treatise on transcendentalism.
Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” as its 2024 Word of the Year, reflecting concerns about mental strain from ...
If you haven’t heard the term, well, perhaps you’ve been spending too much time on activities that do rot your brain, like ...
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There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has ...
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