A recent review of slang across six generations shows how cultural, media, and technological forces shape language. From the Silent Generation’s formal expressions to Gen Z’s rapidly changing social ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Maria Zijlstra: There's a focus today on 'slanguage', a really neat term for the slang of our language, ...

"Hey sup?" In proper English this is translated into, "Hi how are you?" These days teen-agers are taking the proper English and making it into their own words such as "hey sup?" known as slang. Slang ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

For fans of English at its rawest, the recent arrival of the online version of Green’s Dictionary of Slang is a major event. It’s also a reminder that slang — for all its sleaze and attitude — is just ...