Slang is one of the most interesting parts of any language. It adds character to everyday conversation and separates the cool kids from the not so cool. It’s likely that slang has been used all throughout history, Ancient Greek writers used it over 2,000 years ago; and even the famed Shakespeare went with slang in ...
Some of the greatest movies and television shows of all-time take place in the Wild West. Noting beats cowboys riding horses, saloon fights and poker games. Sometimes it can be hard to follow a movie scene in the Wild West though because they have their own way of speaking. To understand Wild West movies you ...
Money makes the world go round. We work to earn money. We love to have it, save it and spend it. And many of us want more money! We talk about money all the time – about how much something will cost, when we get paid or how much we need to save. But when ...
So maybe you’ve moved to the British Isles, and now you’re flummoxed by the tide of odd colloquialisms those Limeys keep using. Or maybe you have a mate recently arrived in the States, and you can’t understand a thing the cheeky bugger is saying. No matter the reason, British slang can be pretty confusing for ...
Every year a new crop of “cool” words and phrases suddenly enters the population, sprouting into our language like so many weeds. Literally overnight, the offending words just seem to be there. You can’t really tell where they came from, but suddenly everyone is using them. Then, the next year, or a few years later, ...
Heroin addicts come up with very creative alternative names for heroin, no matter what country or city they live in. These names change on a semi-regular basis so that casual eavesdroppers (which may include undercover narcotics officers) will not know that the stuff they are talking about is heroin. In fact, the use of the ...
Many people are confused about just exactly what American slang is, and what the terms mean. I’ve run across a lot of confusion recently among quite a few British people, even though Britons use American slang terminology far more than they probably realize. It’s not this mutual lingo which we share that’s the problem. Even ...
The Beatles put Liverpool on the map for visitors who might never have considered an industrial seaport in the middle of England a tourist destination. The language spoken there is technically English, but the difference isn’t just the accent or pronunciation, as there is a long list of idioms and slang words unique to the ...
When you’re having trouble understanding your British friend’s explanation of losing their rucksack in the car park before finding the flat, you’re in need of some slang translation. British slang hasn’t changed much in the past twenty years, confusing Americans more often than not with references that can be completely misunderstood. If you can’t distinguish ...
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