Language is not fixed and meaning is what people make it.
A school in Croydon has banned such words as “innit” and “coz” in an attempt to improve the English of its students and better prepare them for the job market in the future.
Do you know how to “twerk” or where to fin the best “street food” that you can pay for in “Bitcoins”?
Scientists at San Diego Zoo believe that they have discovered how elephants talk to each other in a “secret language” using frequencies too low for humans or other predators to hear.
Published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the latest paper to upset linguists around the world uses methods from computational evolutionary science to look at questions about language prehistory.