Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025 is another Gen Z slang. Oxford University Press announced "rage bait" as Oxford ...

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 ...

Howdy” might feel like a cowboy movie greeting, cheerful and Western, but in kink-friendly circles, it carries a very ...

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 ...

TEEN talk is so bad it's sick. As a rough translation, that means it's great. If you're a teenager. If you're a parent, on the other hand, it is quite literally bad – a foreign language that leaves ...

Fans of Anthony Burgess know that the famed English author loved playing with language. While writing his seminal novel A Clockwork Orange (1962)—which director Stanley Kubrick later adapted into a ...

Billboard has curated a list with some of the popular Puerto Rican words used by reggaetón and trap artists in their lyrics. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin We listen to it full blast, we sing ...

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 ...