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.

Slang helps kids fit in with their peers, but standard English proficiency remains crucial. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The most popular slang words of 2024 have been revealed, and the results are hardly surprising for anyone who is chronically online.Whether you've been having a Brat summer (spoiler, this somehow didn ...

What exactly drives the creation and spread of slang? There is some social science to it.

If you ever call your partner ‘bae’ or complain that you’re ‘hangry’ you’re officially using some of America’s most annoying slang, according to new research. A new study examining the use and ...

Until a few years ago, I couldn’t speak Spanish without sounding about half a century older—and much more religious—than I am. The language is the first one I learned, but I was taught it primarily by ...

A recent survey found that some parents are in favor of using slang in classrooms and that's not cap. More than 3 in 10 parents of K-12 students even believe slang terms should be added to school ...

IYKYK and if you don't, well there's always Urban Dictionary. Online language learning platform Preply released their 2023 survey of the most commonly used slang terms that parents of teenagers are ...

Jaa’ii! Are you listening? Despite literally meaning “ears” in the Navajo language, jaa’ii refers to someone who hears but isn’t actively listening. That’s one of many colloquial terms unique to the ...