The combination of language and gesture in yeet Vines may help us understand how African American slang becomes incorporated into the lexicons and identities of non-African American speakers. The ...

And I'm going to try and keep this next intro short so we can hit the post, fit in the web back and avoid busting the segment. You may not be able to decipher that radio slang but there's a guy who ...

Tap through TikTok and you'll fall down a slang-filled, dance-crazed rabbit hole a la "Alice in Wonderland." A piece of advice: Don't repeat everything you hear on your sojourn down. Especially if you ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on the ...

If an alien were to stand in the middle of the Quad, or maybe in the center of Lenoir Dining Hall, they’d hear some of the most exquisite diction of our species. Someone is “geekin” on the escalator.

Today's lingo seems creative, but slang in 19th century America was every bit as colorful. Phrases phase in and out of everyday usage. Especially in the global hodgepodge that is American English.