From the East Coast to the Midwest and beyond, these 10 regional slang terms reveal how language changes across the United ...

The South has y’all, but Pennsylvanians call out to a group with yinz. Don’t worry, Massachusettsans have upgraded from rotary phones to keypads. A rotary in the Bay State refers to a traffic circle.

Anywhere you go in the United States, you’re likely to encounter a word you’ve never heard before or never used regularly, as each state has its own set of slang words that might cause a few head ...

Most people know that hobbits are found in the Shire, but military personnel in Iraq know that "fobbits"—as they are dismissively called by soldiers on the front lines—serve at forward operating bases ...

Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic says that teens use slang as a way to build identity. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis/Yahoo News; photo: Alefiyah Gandhi) In his videos, Aleksic speaks in an ...