From the East Coast to the Midwest and beyond, these 10 regional slang terms reveal how language changes across the United ...

“Yinz” is essentially Pittsburgh’s version of “y’all.” It’s used as a second-person plural pronoun, so someone living in ...

We are a nation of slang slingers. Eight out of 10 Americans say they use slang, but half admit to not even knowing the meaning of the slang terms they use. These findings come from a recent survey of ...

The South has y’all, but Pennsylvanians call out to a group with yinz. Don’t worry, Massachusettsans have upgraded from rotary phones to keypads. A rotary in the Bay State refers to a traffic circle.

I'm a parent and teach writing. Watching my kids adopt new slang gives me a window into how expressions go viral, burn out, ...

It's commonly accepted that widespread national television helped smooth over many local US accents and standardized "proper" English usage; will services like Twitter, where people use more ...

In her 1992 article “Naming of Parts: Gender, Culture, and Terms for the Penis among American College Students,” Deborah Cameron argued that the terms used by college students to reference male ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – It’s painful for US soldiers to hear discussions and watch movies about modern wars when the dialogue is full of obsolete slang, like ‘chopper’ and ‘GI.’ Slang changes with the ...

A recent survey found that some parents are in favor of using slang in classrooms and that's not cap. More than 3 in 10 parents of K-12 students even believe slang terms should be added to school ...

We hope that everyone's brain still works this late in the year, because it's time to review the top internet slang terms of 2025! Too much exposure to these infectious buzzwords has the planet down ...

Most people know that hobbits are found in the Shire, but military personnel in Iraq know that "fobbits"—as they are dismissively called by soldiers on the front lines—serve at forward operating bases ...