Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

Before we look at your book selection, could you tell us what slang is? Slang is difficult because everything about it defies simple classification. Nobody knows the etymology of the word slang. If ...

For fans of English at its rawest, the recent arrival of the online version of Green’s Dictionary of Slang is a major event. It’s also a reminder that slang — for all its sleaze and attitude — is just ...

Teenybopper, chad, buppies, sugar mama, wigger. These are just a few of the many slang terms speakers use to represent who they are—and who they’re not. Slang is defined as, “an ever changing set of ...

Every year around this time, dictionaries across the English-speaking world announce their “Word of the Year”. These are expressions (some newly minted and some golden oldies too) that for some reason ...

BANGI, Nov 6 (Bernama) – The Ministry of National Unity (KPN) has proposed incorporating the study of colloquial language and local dialects as part of the language studies syllabus at higher ...

A National Colloquial Language Convention will be held this October to sustain the vitality of community languages. The event, set for Oct 15 and 16, is expected to draw 300 linguists. National ...

Colloquial language does not entirely match up with formal language. This means that some colloquial phrases can mean something entirely different from their formal meaning. Take the following couple ...