OK is one of the most frequently used words in the English language, but does it have a Greek origin? There are numerous ...

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Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

That what we now know as modern English has its roots in old English, a form of English today’s users would find hard to understand? Interestingly, old English is believed to have originated from ...

For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...