Arieh Smith, who goes by the online pseudonym of X...  ...a speech to high school students using Gen Alpha slang , which is helpfully subtitled for Gen Xers like m...  .... Then he gives another speech, also in Gen Alpha slang , to language education students at the Ohio State...

Serving curatorial realness fr.#museum #history #royalarmouries #genz #armsandarmour pic.twitter.com/tOLNbYGvKB— Royal Armouries (@Royal_Armouries) September 14, 2024 The Royal Armouries in Leeds, UK is a military his...

2024: People wanting to be a #Brat during #BratSummer1966: pic.twitter.com/ssYBWBR4tI— LBJ Library (@LBJLibrary) August 23, 2024 The Johnson Presidential Library is hip, cool, and relevant, as demonstrated by this...

The English language has a multitude of terms for...  ...of them are diagnostic terms for mental illness. Slang terms for "crazy" are used when a person has lost...  ...ned. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English traces the idea of ban...  ...te 1910s; The Concise New Partr...

Slang terms come and go, and if you keep using them, th...  ...squo;Neill look into the history and usage of the slang word "cool." The exact meaning of the term has ch...

Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from Ernie Smith, the editor of Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. In another life, he ran ShortFormBlog.Popular culture and life exper...

A specific jargon from the Middle Ages spread amon...  ...about it. The separate language wasn’t just slang or jargon, because it survived for hundreds of ye...  ...n Europe, and were spoken by the lower class as a slang “to the end that their cozenings, knaveries...  ...Samuel Rid wrote. Thomas Harm...

A photo posted by Sarah Andersen (@sarahanders...  ...0, 2016 at 7:35am PDT To hipsters and teenagers, slang terms are cool for about a week, and then they ar...  ...ng way too hard. And the young people who use the slang and the older people who recognize pandering when...

*alarm goes off*Ugh, this again. *remembers breakfast is a thing*Well, alright then.— Chris Hallbeck (@ChrisHallbeck) April 21, 2016 Lots of things are things now. For example, micro braids for hair are now a thin...

(Photo: Kimberly Vardeman)And as a Texan, I could not be more proud!Dan Solomon of Texas Monthy researched this phenomenon. He found that this Norwegian term is several decades old and has its origins in old Western movi...