Slang

Chirmole, a high-intensity soupy sauce as black as squid ink, is poured over tender poached chicken and holds a single hard-cooked egg. This classic Maya dish, dubbed "black dinner" in tiny Central American Belize, is based on darkly charred chiles,...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — i luv Romeo & Juliet cuz u get to c how in luv the 2 caractrz r :p Beginning sentences with lower case letters. Substituting single letters for whole words. Using an ampersand instead of spelling out the word "and."...

When Goldie Goldbloom won one of the most prestigious awards for up-and-coming novelists, she didn't even know she had entered the competition. She hadn't. A fellow writing workshop member - who also happens to be the editor of a literary magazine -...

Better watch what you say if you're planning a night of boozy revelry at the venerable Mount Royal Tavern, which recently installed a "Cuss Bucket" for those getting a little too loud and creative with their profanity. "It's a bar, and I don't mind a...

At its most elemental, the vocoder is an instrument of deception. A mode for veiled communication -- slang in binary code. The U.S and Russian militaries used it to compress and encrypt speech to elude enemy interception, but it soon......

“The King’s Speech,” a British film being touted as a leading contender for the best picture Oscar, is a delightful, heart-warming account of how a cheeky Australian speech therapist helped King George VI conquer a terrible stammer. “Saw 3D” is....

Harvey Weinstein has been quietly fuming for weeks over the MPAA ratings board, which has slapped two of his company's films with what he considers overly restrictive ratings. "The King's Speech," a leading best picture Oscar contender about an...

Yeah, we already told you about the Slang Chickens' residency this month at the Echo, but they deserve another mention as their unique blend of blues, country, old-school L.A. punk and indie rock is the perfect pick-me-up at the start of the week. Despite...

The guys want the good stuff, “Johnny Walker,” they insist. The good “Dog Sweat.” That's Iranian slang for booze. And when characters in this dramedy ask for booze, or talk about a gay rendezvous “in the north” or young...

Kottke posts the video below and notes "Pomplamoose is still twee and adorable." I've never felt confident using the word "twee" or, another favorite among critics, "fey." Dictionary.com says twee is British slang for "affectedly dainty or quaint," and...

If there's one thing that this year's Silver Lake Jubilee music lineup proves, it's that gravitational forces can work in mysterious ways. The pulling-together of bands from all corners of L.A. has resulted in a variety of indie acts that,......

A look at The First English Dictionary of Slang, 1699, 2010 edition...