The NYT’s guide is particularly notable for its insistence that a significant amount of today’s slang isn’t new at all. The ...

In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination was Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three-volume reference set containing 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambridge Dictionary adds 6,000 new words, from Gen Alpha slang like “skibidi" and “delulu" to workplace terms like “mouse ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthony Burgess at the PEN International 1985 in Lugano Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo The reaction most readers have to beginning Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange is: ...