“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 ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has welcomed new slang terms into the millions of words it has defined, including terms like “skibidi” and “tradwife” that have been popularized on social media. More than ...

Multiple words, such as “delulu” and “skibidi” that many people dismiss as nonsense internet slang used by kids, have just been added to the Cambridge Dictionary. These slang terms are among the over ...

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 ...

Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary. The book is the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, and the general editor is Anne Soukhanov. She's been ...