are derived from African American Vernacular English (AAVE). To categorize these words as solely Gen Z or Gen Alpha slang would be to misrepresent their history, and would also over-simplify the ...

Although middle schoolers are using gyat to make inappropriate remarks on people’s bodies, the word has a history that stems ...

- April Baker-Bell, author of "Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy." These terms feel fun to everybody else, but you don't understand what that grew out of among ...

John Fleming: AAVE is non-rotic meaning, that like a British accent, there are no "R" sounds at the end of words or at the end of syllables. Ocbazghi: John Fleming is a speech and dialect coach ...

"All of these words...have, at the core of them ... This paper has sparked a debate online over whether "WLW" is part of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). "I've never heard it [WLW] ...

A “rizzler” in AAVE is defined as an individual who embodies the concept of rizz, which refers to charisma or swagger. The word “rizz” was likely derived directly from “charisma” as a ...

Social media mavens often use the term “ahh” in place of the curse word “ass” both to convey AAVE parlance and to get around social media algorithms that may restrict the visibility of ...

“Stay woke”, like many other AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) expressions, entered popular culture, becoming the latest “cool” word to use. This not only erased all the socio ...

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