“Clatterdevengeance” is Jonathon Green’s favorite slang word, and he is in a position to have one. Green, known on Twitter as Mister Slang, is the world’s foremost English slang lexicographer and the ...

While England is an English speaking country, there are many varying degrees of slang. Just how trendy words from your parents' generation are different than those of your youth, English residents ...

There’s enough slang within the English language to make up a whole new language. If you need to do some research for an English assignment, or you’re just into linguistics, this online dictionary is ...

Vacay is one of many modern entries that are simply shortened versions of actual words. According to Merriam-Webster, the truncated form of vacation was first used in 1991. Does this word-shortening ...

I came of age online. LiveJournal and Tumblr were fixtures for me in the early 2010s, when Harry Potter fan-fiction was written at warp speed and Tumblr had not yet banned adult content. In those days ...

Time-saving online abbreviations like LOL, OMG, and IMHO are now part of the official English language. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the addition of several acronyms to its dictionary ...

We know about 'chav'. But what is a 'Croydon facelift'? And when did 'groovy' stop meaning 'stuck in a groove'? Jonathon Green, the man who knows, tells John Preston why slang English is in such rude ...