Philadelphia’s CBS 3 investigated the origins of the term “jawn” in a super educational segment that aired on Monday…

The Yukon territory in Canada is cold, dark, and sparsely populated—circumstances that require Yukon’s Health and…

The Oxford Dictionary attempts to keep up with the rapidly-changing pace of linguistic trends by frequently making…

By its very definition, slang is simple. It is informal language used by a group of people to discuss or describe…

On Thursday, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its latest update, which added almost 500 new words to the…

This segment where Seth Meyers breaks down "teen slang" on his Wednesday night show was not on fleek.

Let us begin, as we so often do, by acknowledging that the term "basic bitch" has been expertly Columbused by…

Hey, hey, hep cat jurors! In today's modern and crazy courtroom, some words may come up that you don't quite…

The problem with the word "vagina" is that vaginas seem to be just straight-out bad luck. Only a masochist would…

The 1989 Alyson Almanac is a treasure trove of gay and lesbian data, and its Dictionary of Slang and Historical…

Just when you thought the much-buzzed about Texts from HIllary couldn't get any better, Hillary herself has…

White Chicago blues guitarist Michael Bloomfield got the shock of his young life when he was traveling to a gig with…

In a surely ill-fated bid to make kids more well-spoken, a school in Sheffield, England has banned slang. Says the…

Hey, girlfriend! Did you know that teens now have a totally phat new word for getting an abortion? According to…

In addition to "balls," "nuts" and "cojones," the Cosmo story "Two Spots He's Dying For You To Touch" uses "his…

It appears Christopher Hitchens has finally seen Clueless, because he's come up with a decades-too-late analysis —…

If you've ever claimed to have invented a word, only to find it on Urban Dictionary (damn you, nonversation!), you…

• A pair of goodwill pandas arrived in Taiwan from China on Tuesday, a sign of improving relations between the two…

Attention, everyone: 20th century Barnard students were loose women. Well, not really, but that seems to be the…