"Fr", "IJBOL", "it's giving" are just some of the internet slang that university lecturer Kennedy Albar hears increasingly often in his classroom, but the use of such words is not necessarily bad. He ...

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 ...

Slang is probably as old as human language, though the first slang dictionaries only started popping up in the 16th century. But nothing has been a boon for slang lexicography like the digital age, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author says slang is very much alive nowadays with kids.Courtesy of the author Slang's role is shifting as digital culture ...

I know that when I begin talking about slang, I enter dangerous territory. Slang is a touchy subject. Often, the slang of a younger generation is considered an atrocity by the older generation.

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 ...

From, "chucking a sickie" to "having a yarn," these Aussie slang terms deserve a global audience.