In American English, some slang words come and go. And some stay and stay. Or as Walt Whitman poetically observed in his 1885 defense of American slang, complete with creative spelling: "Slang ... is ...

“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.” So goes the old chestnut commonly attributed to playwright George Bernard Shaw. One of those separations is in ...

"Yass" means "yes" and expresses excitement or agreement; on X, it is celebratory slang. Despite its fame on the internet, ...

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Words that shouldn't be? It all depends on your perspective. Read essays and opinions on how Americans use English. Friction over the American propensity to coin words and phrases dates back to the ...

It’s a word we often think of when we mean “easy,” but its origins are anything but simple. “Cakewalk” dates back to “prize walks,” or dances performed by enslaved Africans on Southern plantations, in ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used. A new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Black people ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--‘Homer’ is Word of the Year, according to the world’s most popular online dictionary for learners of English. The winning word from Cambridge Dictionary was ...