Stacker has researched 50 old-timey slang words and discovered what they mean. From the 1950s to the 1990s, there have been dozens of slang terms that have come and gone.

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up ...

An ironic slip by Premier Legault The Quebec Premier lamented how today's youth find it 'cool' to use English words. 2 critically injured in multi-vehicle collision on Highway 401 in Mississauga ...

Zynga revealed a brand new addition to Words With Friends, as the team have updated the game with Letter Lock mode.This is a new single-player mode that will test your skills as you try to solve ...

Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of ...

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, for instance, is fairly easy to say, but if you mix in two slightly different ...

Here are seven common English terms to describe chillier temperatures. learn. learning resources. Listening. Worksheets. English exercises. ... 7 words to describe the cold, from cool to bone ...

1. Korean suggestions of English words such as “e-mail” and “e-mail list” in the library at the National Institute of Korean Language in Seoul.

We don’t know the origins of ‘boy’ or ‘girl’. Royal MS 10 E IV f.311v / The British Library 3. Girl. Since the 14th century, gyrle was a word used to indicate a child, with no gender ...

Every generation likes to think it invented slang anew, but often the latest words are actually very old. Here are several words that have been around much longer than you might think. (The ...

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume.

Popular words used in Black culture for centuries are making their way into Oxford’s newest dictionary. Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian and director of the Hutchins Center for African and ...