Slang is very informal language or specific words used by a particular group of people. You’ll usually hear slang spoken more often than you’ll see it put in writing, though emails and texts often contain many conversational slang words.

Common Examples of Slang

• LOL: “Laughing out loud.” Abbreviations are very common slang in current texting and social media posting.
• Friend/Unfriend/Defriend: Words that already have a meaning, like the very basic word “friend” has taken on new meaning via social media.

This year has seen so many seismic events that Oxford Dictionaries has expanded its word of the year to encompass several “Words of an Unprecedented Year”. Its words are chosen to reflect 2020’s “ethos, mood, or preoccupations”.

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Merriam-Webster announced the pronoun “they” as its word of the year on Tuesday, marking the rise of the use of the venerable plural pronoun to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary. “A pronoun like ‘they’ is one of the building blocks of the language,” Mr. Sokolowski said.

Use your Word of the Year to help guide your decisions and continue moving towards what you want. The first step to creating anything you want is to identify self-awareness and specific intention(s). A Word of the Year will set you in the right direction by bringing more awareness to your intentions.

Each year, instead of setting a resolution, I choose a single word that encapsulates my aspirations for the next twelve months. In recent years, I’ve chosen gentle, spacious, and grace—words that have guided me to resist the pull of perfectionism, make room for the things that matter, and seek moments of transcendence.

5 Steps to help you choose your Word of the Year (WOTY)

1. Step 1: Reflect. The first thing I want you to do is to reflect on this past year and ask yourself these questions.
2. Step 2: Visualize.
3. Step 3: Create a List.
4. Step 4: Review & Refine.
5. Step 5: Ask Yourself this VERY important question.

One word substitution is the use of one word in place of a wordy phrase in order to make the sentence structure clearer. The meaning, with the replacement of the phrase remains identical while the sentence becomes shorter.

Here’s what to say at midnight (and for the first couple weeks of January): Happy New Year! You also say “New Year” with no possessive apostrophe-S when you’re talking about the year as a whole. “New Year’s” refers to one night, one day, and one resolution (or a lot of resolutions—we don’t judge).

New Year’s Day, also simply called New Year or New Year’s, is observed on 1 January, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar. In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named.

“Wishing you a happy, healthy New Year.” “May the New Year bless you with health, wealth, and happiness.” “In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.” “May your teeth be white, your eyes be bright, and your capacity for love at its height!”

Today is the Julian New Year, sometimes called the Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year. Tomorrow – January 14, 2021 – will be January 1 in the Julian calendar. Best New Year’s gift ever! EarthSky moon calendar for 2021.

The Julian calendar is still used in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Berbers. The Julian calendar has two types of years: a normal year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days.

Today, we are listing the major New Year celebrations from different parts of the country.

• Baisakhi – Punjab. Source.
• Jude Sheetal – Bihar, Jharkhand.
• Bohag Bihu – North Eastern States.
• Gudi Padwa – Maharashtra.
• Ugadi – Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
• Jamshedi Navroz.
• Vishu – Kerala.
• Pohela Boishakh – West Bengal.

The first countries in the world to celebrate a New Year are the Pacific islands of Tonga, Samoa and Christmas /Kiribati, where January 1 commences at 10 am GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) or 3:30 pm as per the Indian Standard Time (IST), on December 31.