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Slang - vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage.

It is notable for its liveliness, humor, emphasis, brevity,

Slang
Slang is the poetry of everyday life. (S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Action, 1941)

novelty, and exaggeration. Characteristically individual, slang often incorporates elements of the jargons of special-interest groups (professional, sport, drug subcultures). Slang words often come from foreign languages or are of a regional nature. Some words are retained for long periods and eventually become part of the standard language (blizzard, movie). Slang ranks third behind standard and colloquial and before cant. The English Criminal Cant was a new kind of speech used by criminals and cheats, meaning it developed mostly in saloons and gambling houses. By the end of the 16th century this new style of speaking was considered to be a language without reason or order. During the 18th century slang - taboo. ertain events happened in the 18th century that helped the development of slang such as, Westward expansion, the Civil War, and the abolitionist movement. By this time scholars such as Walt Whitman wrote that slang was a wholesome.....of common humanity to escape the form bald literalism, and express itself illimitably. Since 1920s it started to escape the harsh criticism of being associated with criminals or foreigners. There was now a

babe, chick, squeeze, skirt - woman; stewed, trashed, smashed drunkenness; chill - to calm down (Chill out, Dude); dude - refers to any person; stinks - means "is bad." (This exam stinks.); Mr. Charley - a white man; the Man - the law; Joe Sixpack: uncultured, beer-drinking white American manual worker; john, head, can, loo toilet; grub, slop, garbage, gas food; makin' whoopee (Walter Winchell 1929) making love;
demand for entertainment, mass media, and slangy fiction.

Place names

From 789 AD onwards, the Vikings from Denmark and Norway raided most parts of the British Isles. After much savage fighting they eventually settled down to live alongside the Anglo-Saxons. Modern Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk and Suffolk became subject to Danish rule. The Scandinavian language, 'Old Norse', had the same Germanic roots as Old English so, over the years, the two languages mixed quite well. There are more Scandinavian names in Norfolk reflecting the fact that the early Viking invaders sailed up the River Yare and eventually made some settlements nearby.

by a farm, then a village; darl/dale a valley; toft a site of a house and outbuildings, a plot of land; -ness cape; thorpe - a secondary settlement, farm; Tyby (Tidhe + by = Tidhes farmstead); Swaledale (=valley); Lowestoft (Hlothver + toft = Hlothvers plot of land); Ordford Ness (cape); Coneysthorpe (village). touch-phone; googling; down-ageing (the practice of pretending that you are younger than you are); deather (a person who does not believe that US forces killed Osama Bin Laden); blondarexia (an extreme dedication to bleaching ones hair); cheapskating (an approach to dressing in which someone dresses mainly in cheap, high-street clothes with the odd luxe item thrown in); Posh 2.0 (an upper-class, bohemian person); vacationship intimate relations during the vacation; seagen - a vegan that eats seafood.

Neologisms

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