Across the United States, a quiet linguistic shift is underway, reshaping how people speak in ways that are easy to miss in ...

This video teaches twenty popular American slang words that you’ll hear in everyday conversations. Each term is explained in ...

Every generation has its own way of speaking, but some slang words just don’t stand the test of time. Once popular phrases that were part of everyday conversation are now barely hanging on, used only ...

The combination of language and gesture in yeet Vines may help us understand how African American slang becomes incorporated into the lexicons and identities of non-African American speakers. The ...

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

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The VSCO girl trend, a contemporary rehashing of "valley girls," rose almost as quickly as it fell, but the phrases popularized alongside the ...

Every culture, language and generation has their own slang – whether it be the hip daddy-o’s from the 1950s or those hella legit NorCal surfers from the 90s. And Deaf culture is no different. For ...

If an alien were to stand in the middle of the Quad, or maybe in the center of Lenoir Dining Hall, they’d hear some of the most exquisite diction of our species. Someone is “geekin” on the escalator.