Pause the Pineapples!’ Employees are inventing nonsensical rivals to work phrases like 'circle back' and 'blue-sky thinking.' ...
As with any generation, Gen Alpha has its own lexicon of what’s cool and what’s not, and they’re letting everyone older than ...
Choppelganger is the latest Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang term taking over social media. Blending “chopped” and “doppelganger,” ...
Here's presenter Michael Rosen and linguist Derek Bousfield discussing one example of hyperbole on BBC Radio 4's Word of ...
Tension: Toxic behavior rarely looks toxic at first. It often hides inside everyday language—phrases that sound harmless ...
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Twenty American slang words to know

This video teaches twenty popular American slang words that you’ll hear in everyday conversations. Each term is explained in ...
Using that as a jumping-off point, my wife and I love to take the kids to local museums and cultural festivals, and we have ...
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff co-founded the Whidbey Island women writer's retreat Hedgebrook and was involved in a number of other ...
A policy advocate from the American Civil Liberties Union warned FETC attendees last week that fear-based marketing and ...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has given the green light for the use of 22 African slangs that are now officially ...
Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.
Rather than expressing anger in an uncouth way, here are 11 elegant ways to cuss someone out without saying any bad words.