In 2003, we asked Ouch readers to vote for the disability-related words that they find most offensive. A panel of disabled people created our diverse top ten list, which was then put to the public ...

Kindness has been chosen as Children's Word of the Year for 2024 after a survey of thousands of young people. Oxford University Press (OUP) said "artificial intelligence" and "conflict" were also ...

Ms Quincey said the choice of these two words also reflected children's positivity in wanting to celebrate their friends. She added that in the final vote kindness had been chosen by 61% of ...