Word in progress: Addition of slangs to English dictionaries
The emergence of new slangs, along with their acceptance by English dictionaries over the years, is democratising the language By Reya Mehrotra If Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the ‘father of English literature’ was to be alive again, he would not get what was being said in his own mother tongue.In December 2021, ‘floofy’ was one … Read more