Teenage Girls ~ Language Innovators for Centuries

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Female teenagers are actually “language disruptors” — innovators who invent new words that make their way into the vernacular. “To use a modern metaphor, young women are the Uber of language."

Teenage Girls Have Led Language Innovation for Centuries

They've been on the cutting edge of the English language since at least the 1500s

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM|BY HELEN THOMPSON