If there was any doubt that the English language is and always will be a work in progress, the following fact should end it: LOL is a word. As in, an honest-to-goodness, in-the-Oxford English ...

Phrases like A/S/L and TTYL may have bit the dust post-chatroom era. But there’s one term from the early days of the Internet that continues on as a major part of our lexicon: LOL. It’s an acronym, a ...