A Parents guide to decoding the lingo your kids use in texts, on TikTok, and IRL. Fact checked by Elizabeth Brownfield Teens in each generation develop a unique language of their own—and the same can ...

Vacay is one of many modern entries that are simply shortened versions of actual words. According to Merriam-Webster, the truncated form of vacation was first used in 1991. Does this word-shortening ...

"That's so sus, Mom!" Got a kiddo in Generation Z or Generation Alpha? Then everything must be "sus." "Sus" is short for "suspicious," according to Urban Dictionary, and it represents a distrust of ...

Texting abbreviations have been around for decades, since texting itself. And now, more abbreviations and slang words continue to crop up as Gen Z enters adulthood and Gen A gets old enough to have ...