While England is an English speaking country, there are many varying degrees of slang. Just how trendy words from your parents' generation are different than those of your youth, English residents ...

It's safe to say that Britain is home to some of the most distinctive slang words around the world. Now, a study has revealed the outdated terms that Britons are desperate to introduce back into the ...

You may be left 'chuffed' or 'gutted' by the results of this study, which reveals the top ten most loved and hated British slang terms. Analysts compared the proportion of upvotes and downvotes ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

I came of age online. LiveJournal and Tumblr were fixtures for me in the early 2010s, when Harry Potter fan-fiction was written at warp speed and Tumblr had not yet banned adult content. In those days ...

Can you guess the meaning behind these old-school slang words? A brief history of slang words Slang words have been a part of ...

From "The First English Dictionary of Slang" (University of Chicago Press; $25), originally published in 1699 as "A New Dictionary of Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew." In his introduction ...

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Flipping through the thin pages of a dictionary, it can be hard to imagine the humans who actually put the thing together, deciding how each word would be defined and discovering how it trickled down ...