The new Brach’s Sweet Bright Conversation Hearts feature a new, crunchy texture, six delicious flavors — blue raspberry, ...
Slang's role is shifting as digital culture spreads and dilutes new expressions quickly. Social media and AI have made slang more mainstream, reducing its power to signal belonging. Inventing personal ...
3. "I really like 'mid.' I like to review things, and there are so many things that are 'aggressively mediocre,' but before 'mid,' I didn't have a word or phrase that really captured the feeling. Even ...
The holiday season is about spending time with loved ones, which also means hearing all of the random words and phrases the young ones have picked up since you saw them last year. No thanks to the ...
Every year has its own batch of flash-in-the-pan slang, which often emerges seemingly out of nowhere among younger generations (before, typically, just as often falling out of fashion a year or two ...
An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them? By Miya Lee and Kendall Blomfield By the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, ...
It’s the new slang word taking Gen Z by storm – but do you know what it means if someone calls you ‘unc’? The description has spread like wildfire on social media in recent months, appearing across ...
2025 was the year when the internet wrote the dictionary. From TikTok trends to AI tools, from foodie slang to social media debates, new words didn’t just appear, they took over feeds, captions, ...
"What's slanging?" I ask my kids, hoping for a tutorial on the latest lingo. "Our teacher threatened yellow slips if anyone reacts again to six-seven," they tell me. That sounds fair to me. My kids ...