Jonathon Green is a scholar of slang, a man who has spent nearly 40 years treating a lowbrow subject with highbrow rigor. Surrounded by glutted bookshelves in his London flat, the 70-year-old can ...

For American viewers, The Great British Baking Show (known as the Great British Bake-Off in its native UK) isn't just one of the most adorable reality shows on-air today — it's also a linguistic ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on the ...