While England is an English speaking country, there are many varying degrees of slang. Just how trendy words from your parents' generation are different than those of your youth, English residents ...

There’s enough slang within the English language to make up a whole new language. If you need to do some research for an English assignment, or you’re just into linguistics, this online dictionary is ...

I came of age online. LiveJournal and Tumblr were fixtures for me in the early 2010s, when Harry Potter fan-fiction was written at warp speed and Tumblr had not yet banned adult content. In those days ...

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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 ...

British comedian Michael McIntyre has a standard bit in his standup routines concerning the many (many!) slang terms posh British people use to describe being drunk. These include “wellied,” ...

Anthony Burgess at the PEN International 1985 in Lugano Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo The reaction most readers have to beginning Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange is: ...