In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...

Social media users are looking up their own names on Urban Dictionary and are sharing the flattering (and not so flattering) results. For those who have never ventured to the website before, Urban ...

One Massachusetts teacher took it upon himself to better understand his students by creating a Gen Z dictionary of all the slang words his students use. "Teenagers sort of have their own language, and ...

Flipping through the thin pages of a dictionary, it can be hard to imagine the humans who actually put the thing together, deciding how each word would be defined and discovering how it trickled down ...

The use of slang in court proceedings can be tricky, especially in criminal cases where an uncommon slang term used by a witness can make a difference in a case. New York Times tech reporter Leslie ...

Vacay is one of many modern entries that are simply shortened versions of actual words. According to Merriam-Webster, the truncated form of vacation was first used in 1991. Does this word-shortening ...

It's corking good stuff. “The potential of an online dictionary has to go beyond that of even the greatest print lexicons,” says the 68-year-old dictionary maker, who has been studying, collecting and ...