Add “belligerent” and “literati” in an op-ed and stir. “Belligerati!” This recent addition to America’s political lingo -- and hundreds of other coinages -- are compiled in Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: ...

What's a "blurker"? Or a "pavement princess"? Or a "plokta"? What does "peeps" mean? Writer Paul Dickson knows. A confessed addict to collecting and identifying slang words, Dickson has written a new ...

Students of English who have mastered basic vocabulary and grammar face the added challenge of learning slang, which varies throughout the English-speaking world and is constantly changing. Mike ...

Slang is an entire vocabulary all on its own, and American slang is no different. It’s quirky, strange and sometimes outright confusing if we’re being honest! American slang is filled with phrases and ...

Has American English become homogenized? Have our regional ways of saying particular things — sometimes in very particular ways — receded into the past? Or do we talk as funny as ever? But what about ...

Jonathon Green is a scholar of slang, a man who has spent nearly 40 years treating a lowbrow subject with highbrow rigor. Surrounded by glutted bookshelves in his London flat, the 70-year-old can ...