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Kelley is credited [4] with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print, in the title of a 1962 op-ed for The New York Timeson the use of African-American slang by beatniks: "If You're Woke, You Dig It". [5] [10] For Kathryn Schulz, writing in The New Yorker in 2018, Kelley is "the lost giant of American literature". [3]
[34] [15] The American Dialect Society voted woke the slang word of the year in 2017. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In the same year, the term was included as an entry in Oxford English Dictionary . [ 38 ] [ 7 ] By 2019, the term woke was increasingly being used in an ironic sense, as reflected in the books Woke by comedian Andrew Doyle (using the pen ...
The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. The term carries different meanings and strong emotional ...
The first audio recording of someone using woke in this way dates back to 1938, when the legendary blues musician Lead Belly told an interviewer that Black people in the South “best stay woke ...
African American slang is formed by words and phrases that are regarded as informal. It involves combining, shifting, shortening, blending, borrowing, and creating new words. African American slang possess all of the same lexical qualities and linguistic mechanisms as any other language. AAVE slang is more common in speech than it is in writing ...
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Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
John Hamilton McWhorter V (/ m ə k ˈ hw ɔːr t ər /; [1] born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist. [2] [3] He is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, [4] where he also teaches American studies and music history. [5]