Collins Dictionary has officially declared the word 'brat' as the word of the year. Many phrases popularised by social media ...

Merriam-Webster has revealed the 200 new words they’ve added to the dictionary’s 2024 edition, including several slang words and terms beloved by the younger generations. “Our lexicographers ...

The teachers have since shown their students the viral post, which has been upvoted more than 55,000 times. The Reddit user ...

Gen Alpha, people born since 2010, created their own vocabulary with slang terms such as 'fanum tax' and 'skibidi.' Here's everything to know about what the terms mean.

“Straight up, we’re getting New Zealand back on track ... “If you look at any historical example, the slang words that survive are never the ones we think of as slang words ...

Welp, I say we Folks of a Certain Age deserve our own slang terms. As were those lists of chat/texting acronyms for seniors ...

So I’d wondered if there was any way to actually predict through speech patterns a way to create a new slang word. While I was told there’s not much linguists can do to predict what will become a ...

On social media words spread far and fast. Each year at least 100 English words are produced or given new meaning on TikTok, ...

Shan Fourie, a mother of three from KwaZulu-Natal, shared an interesting video on social media about understanding, or should we say decoding, 'tween slang'. She said she finds it difficult to ...

Slang was once widely attributed to specific ... And while the uptick of new words among such groups is not linguistically noteworthy, the rapidity is. "The pace at which this occurs and the ...