Linguistics
In the 2010s, 'because' quietly became a new part of speech
Around 2013, English speakers started putting 'because' directly in front of a bare noun, adjective, or interjection — 'late because traffic,' 'skeptical because science' — skipping the usual 'of' or full clause. Linguists documented it as a genuinely new grammatical construction, and the American Dialect Society named 'because' its Word of the Year for the innovation.