Before we look at your book selection, could you tell us what slang is? Slang is difficult because everything about it defies simple classification. Nobody knows the etymology of the word slang. If ...

This video teaches twenty popular American slang words that you’ll hear in everyday conversations. Each term is explained in ...

If you've ever talked about drag, camp, butches, and/or trade, you know at least some words from Polari, a secret gay language adopted by gay men in the United Kingdom between the 1920s and the 1960s.

In an episode of Hulu docuseries “The Kardashians,” matriarch and momager Kris Jenner posed a prescient etymological question to her daughter Khloe Kardashian in the midst of getting all dolled up.

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 ...

The other day, I overheard my 18-year-old daughter chatting with her friends. Between bursts of laughter, she said someone had ...

You’ve probably noticed that most kids and teenagers talk in a way that sounds like English, but somehow also doesn’t sound like it. Gen Z already had its own style of communicating. However, Gen ...

Slang is probably as old as human language, though the first slang dictionaries only started popping up in the 16th century. But nothing has been a boon for slang lexicography like the digital age, as ...

"All slang words are detestable from the lips of ladies," Eliza Leslie said in 1867. She was the author of the Behavior Book, a 19th century etiquette manual published in Philadelphia. How times have ...

Americans, it’s time to put your heritage to the test!We’ve gathered 32 Irish slang words and phrases that every true Irish descendant should know. From classic greetings like “Top o’ the Morning to ...