In 2025, the internet's language has evolved faster than ever with new slangs popping up overnight and spreading like ...

Our dictionary is always getting larger, so getting lost in the new lingo added to our vocabulary every year is easy. 2024 is no different. Plenty of slang has become a staple in conversations and ...

Adam Aleksic wants to make “linguistics cool again.” That may sound decidedly uncool, but the Harvard-educated linguist, influencer and author of Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future ...

Slang such as ain't, innit and coz has been banned from a school in south London. Author Charles Nevin celebrates modern slang and revisits phrases that have fallen out of fashion. Cor lummy! Please ...

When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

Gen Alpha's unique slang, like '6-7' for agreement, reflects their digital-native communication. Understanding these terms is ...

Lexicographer Jonathon Green selects the slang words and expressions that encapsulate the age in which they were coined. I've been collecting slang and and publishing books about it for 30 years. My ...

The popular phrase “6-7” took off a few months ago. It’s thought to have originated from a rap song by Skrilla, but the experts on this are the kids. Among the youngest kids who are in on the 6-7 ...

Dictionary.com announced the internet brainrot slang term “67” (also written as "six-seven" or "6-7") is its Word of the Year for 2025, to the confusion of many online.