In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination was Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three-volume reference set containing 10 ...

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The NYT’s guide is particularly notable for its insistence that a significant amount of today’s slang isn’t new at all. The ...

Bunurong elders, linguists and community members are working to revive a language that has not been spoken fluently for more than a century. Using 19th-century records, they are reconstructing ...

If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...

Tribal officials said the project is part of a broader effort to preserve Indigenous languages, including Cherokee, by expanding access around the world. The tribe began working with Kiwa Digital in ...