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Non-standard variety of English spoken by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians
The n-word traces linguistically to Latin niger (“black”) via Spanish/Portuguese negro and French nègre and appears in English from the 16th century as neger/niger; by the early 1800s it had “firmly e...
The adjective “woke” originated in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) as a call to stay alert to racial injustice, with documented uses at least as early as the 1920s–1940s and explicit politi...
The word “nigger” is widely recorded as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people and is described by major reference sources as “perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial s...
FAFO is widely defined as the acronym for * Around, Find Out""Fool Around, Find Out"1. Why FAFO is everywhere: from memes to diplomacya sharp uptick in FAFO usage across platformstelegraph a maximalis...