J.K. Rowling’s Daughter ‘Tutored’ Her on Teen Slang
ABC/PATTY NEGER(NEW YORK) — J.K. Rowling, the bestselling author behind the wizard world of the wildly popular Harry Potter books, has invented hundreds of words — Muggle, Quidditch, apparating to name a few — that have entered pop culture vocabular…
Swearing Characters More Popular, Attractive in Young Adult Novels
Zoonar/Thinkstock(PROVO, Utah) — Profanity in teen novels varies greatly from book to book, but characters that do use foul language tend to also be the most popular, attractive and rich, according to new research published in the journal Mass Communi…