I know that when I begin talking about slang, I enter dangerous territory. Slang is a touchy subject. Often, the slang of a younger generation is considered an atrocity by the older generation.

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

From the East Coast to the Midwest and beyond, these 10 regional slang terms reveal how language changes across the United States.

Z, workplace slang signals acceptance. Smart leaders learn the language beneath the words to communicate clearly with team ...

A new slang word, "Choppelganger," is being used by Gen Z and Gen Alpha to describe someone as the less attractive version of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Internet slang has a tendency to fall out of fashion almost faster than the general population can even learn what it means. But sometimes it was never really in fashion in the first place. Case in ...

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 ...