This week’s language headlines include the publication of new slang dictionary, and an entire book devoted to that tiny piece of punctuation, the period, and a tip-off about audio recordings of famous authors whose voices would otherwise be lost.
skip-hop n.— «Local hip-hop—or skip-hop as it is sometimes known—is also raising the profile of other rhyming-based performance such as spoken word and poetry slamming.» —“The Good New Days” by Cassandra Wilkinson New Matilda (Surry Hills, New...