When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

Let me just start by saying—all words are made up. Language wasn’t bestowed on us on holy tablets and delivered by Advanced Placement Moses so that our tongues would know what to do with themselves.

Cambridge Dictionary's latest addition of 6,000 new words, including Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang terms “skibidi,” “tradwife”, and “delulu”, has sparked criticism online. However, the world’s largest ...

Cambridge University Press & Assessment has recently announced that over 6000 words, including a few slang words, have been added to its dictionary. So when next you search the Cambridge Dictionary, ...

I'm a parent and teach writing. Watching my kids adopt new slang gives me a window into how expressions go viral, burn out, ...

A college of various internet slang: "brat" (top left), "demure" (top right), "rizz" (bottom left), and "crash out" (bottom right). "What they talkin' 'bout? They ain't talkin' 'bout nothin'" I'm sure ...

Jawn has officially made the history books, as the all-purpose Philadelphia slang was added to a leading online dictionary this week. Dictionary.com entered jawn into its lexicon on Wednesday, as part ...

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 ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has welcomed new slang terms into the millions of words it has defined, including terms like “skibidi” and “tradwife” that have been popularized on social media. More than ...

SAN ANTONIO – Staying up to date with the latest slang may be a side hustle for some, and Dictionary.com is trying to keep up with its new additions for summer 2021. Some of the newer terms are ...

After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced a Generation Alpha slang term is its 2024 word of the year, "brain rot." Here's an ...