Oxford Appeals To Young Wordsmiths To Help Decode Modern Slang

With an aim is to record all distinctive words - old and new, formal and informal - that shape langu, Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has launched youth slang word appeal.

OED said it wants to hear about unique words and expressions that children and young people use and if one doesn't understand se, n it can come to ir rescue. Some of words frequently used as slang se days are "bare", "dank" and "hench".

words that many hear for first time from younger people often have a bigger story to tell about varieties of English used by particular ethnic or cultural groups, and ir influence on langu as a whole, it said.

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"Slang terms are always challenging for dictionary editors to track but young people's langu today can be particularly elusive - because terms that are in vogue change so rapidly and newer ephemeral modes of communication (texting, WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc.) make it difficult to monitor and record this kind of vocabulary.

"That's why we are asking for your help in identifying langu used by children and teenrs today," it said.

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According to Danica Salazar, World English Editor at Oxford University Press, "Multilingual, multicultural, and techlogically savvy, young people in India are changing lexicon in ways that lexicographers find particularly invative, but also elusive.

"By taking words from many langus y speak, n taking m apart and putting m back toger again, children and teenrs create what seems like a secret vocabulary full of imaginative new words and meanings that are distinctly Indian. OED is reaching out to se young wordsmiths to help us record slang words that y have invented."