Music is an effective form of communication, and its educational value continues to skyrocket. Stephen Mayeux (picture above), an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at the University of ...

Gone are the days of "YOLO," as Gen Alpha is full of new "frfrfr" phrases that leave many millennials scratching their heads. As the pace of new slang from younger generations speeds up, keeping up ...

Lexicographer Jonathon Green selects the slang words and expressions that encapsulate the age in which they were coined. I've been collecting slang and and publishing books about it for 30 years. My ...

The speed slang spreads through social media poses a challenge for anyone trying to keep up. Members of Gen Z are using a slew of new terms, such as "situationship" and "rizz." Here are 16 slang terms ...

Slang words have been a part of everyday language for hundreds of years, and over time slang has become a fun form of informal communication. The modern-day influence of movies, television and the ...

From "smh" to "IMO," there are so many slang and shorthand terms used online. Maybe you have even been scrolling through TikTok or Twitter only to come across a phrase you are unfamiliar with. These ...

Gen Zers, those adorable digital natives born between the years of 1997 and 2012, have rather famously given themselves a dictionary’s worth of new slang, mixing acronyms, emojis and internet-isms ...

While scrolling through social media, like TikTok or Twitter, have you come across an acronym or word you're unfamiliar with? Online communication has certainly changed over the past few decades, and ...

"Mid" is a slang word for anything that's ... blah. Meh. Eh. According to Bark.us, a company that decodes teen slang, "mid" is "a term used to describe something that is average, not particularly ...

The New York Times recently published an article about the implementation of a $25 penalty for pot possession in Washington, D.C. The article quoted residents of the District sharing their thoughts on ...

Jonathon Green is a scholar of slang, a man who has spent nearly 40 years treating a lowbrow subject with highbrow rigor. Surrounded by glutted bookshelves in his London flat, the 70-year-old can ...