“Clatterdevengeance” is Jonathon Green’s favorite slang word, and he is in a position to have one. Green, known on Twitter as Mister Slang, is the world’s foremost English slang lexicographer and the ...
In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination ...
There’s enough slang within the English language to make up a whole new language. If you need to do some research for an English assignment, or you’re just into linguistics, this online dictionary is ...
Zoomers, we have bad news: your six or seven minutes in the vanguard of the cultural zeitgeist are officially over. The New York Times has published a fresh guide to Gen Z slang. It’s all downhill ...
It's corking good stuff. “The potential of an online dictionary has to go beyond that of even the greatest print lexicons,” says the 68-year-old dictionary maker, who has been studying, collecting and ...
Terms like “Skibidi,” “Tradwife,” “Work Wife,” and “Delulu” have all made their way to the Cambridge Dictionary this year, giving a glimpse at the ever-evolving nature of the English language. Most 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 ...
PeopleWin reports on regional slang across the U.S., highlighting unique terms that shape local identities and connect ...
Another addition is the word ‘snack.’ However, it doesn’t refer to the food eaten between meals, but it refers to an attractive person. New terms derived from the “pandemic and movement toward a sense ...
Time-saving online abbreviations like LOL, OMG, and IMHO are now part of the official English language. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the addition of several acronyms to its dictionary ...
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 ...