"Vocabulism" is a Salon series about how the internet is killing the English ... before “John Oliver clip.” And the word “mansplain” -- a useful neologism with a proud history, whose ...

A new study has revealed the most popular slang words in America for 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Internet slang words can be entirely new made-up words or words that have been in common ...

We understand these days that while the Internet frontier may look limitless ... Or @or, for that matter. Of the 25 most common words in the English language, only one — I — doesn’t have ...

You’re not alone, according to a new ranking of the most Googled slang ... to the introduction of new words, which in turn allow a language to remain relevant and useful in its broader context ...

The most common word in spam emails, you might be surprised to learn, isn't Viagra, Vi@gra, or even V!@gr@. It's "shipping!" (The exclamation mark is the spammer's, not ours.) MessageLabs ...

Excluding common and routine words, the most frequently spoken words at the Democratic convention were: A similar number of words were spoken at the Republican convention in Milwaukee last month ...