Slang

Working for a newspaper requires a lot of very specific skills, one of which is knowing all the journalism jargon that’s out there. Here’s a quick guide to some of the most-used terms!

A brief guide to how pilots talk, from Alpha to Zulu.

Take this quiz to test your knowledge of the Australian slang words and phrases used Down Under!

It’s not all ‘brekkie’ and ‘barbie.’ To speak like a true Australian, you have to learn to stop being such a wanker first.

What is a meme, exactly? And what do memes tell us about the evolution of human communication?

The internet may be homogenizing the way we speak, but for now, we’ve still got ‘yinz’ and ‘jawn.’

One man’s ‘your mom’ barb is another man’s blasphemy. Here’s a look at how obscenity varies from culture to culture — and how it stays the same.

Why settle for ‘buzz off’ when you can tell someone to ‘become dust’ in Turkish?

In Mother Russia, wacky idiom eat you. Here are some funny Russian phrases for current and would-be language learners.

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