Thank Dickens for words and phrases like butter-fingers, flummox, the creeps, dustbin, ugsome, slangular, and more. 14. Dickens started a home for “fallen women.” ...

Let’s face it — the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I’m confident I just invented).

Let’s face it — the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I’m confident I just invented). With the proliferation and pervasiveness of internet culture, slang is everywhere.

Let’s face it — the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I’m confident I just invented). With the proliferation and pervasiveness of internet culture, slang is everywhere.

Let’s face it — the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I’m confident I just invented). With the proliferation and pervasiveness of internet culture, slang is everywhere ...

Let's face it – the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I'm confident I just invented).

Let’s face it — the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I’m confident I just invented). With the proliferation and pervasiveness of Internet culture, slang is everywhere.

Let’s face it — the trajectory of our language is trending slangular (a word I’m confident I just invented). With the proliferation and pervasiveness of internet culture, slang is everywhere.

Thank Dickens for words and phrases like butter-fingers, flummox, the creeps, dustbin, ugsome, slangular, and more He had a pet raven called Grip. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, remains a ...

Charles Dickens loved nothing better than tossing language into new combinations, cooking up slangular, comfoozled (overcome) and self-snatchiation: to rescue oneself from danger.

SLANGULAR A perfect invention of Dickens’s own, it shows up in Bleak House in discussing one character’s verbal “strength lying in a slangular direction” or leaning (at an angle) toward slang.