Oxford English Dictionary

Living through history isn't always exciting; sometimes, the weight of mass global suffering is too much to bear.

With the help of the Oxford English Dictionary and the debatably reliable Urban Dictionary, here are some relics of the early aughts to steep you in nostalgia and help you remember a time before you had to worry about essay deadlines and internship applications.

Actions may speak louder than words, but some words speak louder than others. Stand out from your peers by spicing up your speech with these archaic words, briefly defined and used in UC Berkeley-related example sentences.

It’s hard to summarize the city of Berkeley’s unique nature, but the late San Francisco journalist Herb Caen gave a witty effort when he coined “Berserkeley,” now a citywide nickname that is often spelled “Berzerkeley.”

For aces of all stripes, LGBTQ+ communities are often the first communities we seek out when we first start questioning our a/sexuality and realize that mainstream heterosexual spaces may not have a place for us

Slang: sometimes its use in publication is lit, but other times it gets wack, and, shall we say, corny? Maybe we should not.