Look up any word in the dictionary, and there will be an example of that word in a sentence. Author Jez Burrows's book Dictionary Stories expands those sentences into works of fiction. Unless ...
This story was originally published Sept. 9, 2015. When you look up a word in the dictionary, you'll find its definition, of course. And, depending on the dictionary, you might also find an ...
The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.