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Loaded language: The gun metaphors that pervade our everyday slang - The Washington Post - 0 views

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Language Culture Slang USA Metaphors

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    Gun metaphors riddle our slang (Opinion column from Washington Post)
  • Jenni Young on 21 Apr 14
     
    Gun metaphors riddle our slang (Opinion column from Washington Post)
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Text message slang 'invading GCSEs and A-levels' - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...basic-grammar-punctuation.html

Language Language change Spelling Grammar

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    Teenagers are abandoning basic grammar and punctuation and resorting to text message slang in A-levels and GCSEs, examiners have revealed
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What are you saying cuz? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Dialects Slang New Zealand Immigration

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    No idea what cuzzies, sweet as, wop-wops or wuss mean? Kiwi slang classes at Wellington Central library have been helping migrants tackle these kinds of words, without being too hard out.
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Rhyming slang is nang - 3 views

www.theguardian.com/...ming-slang-nang-chill-cockneys

Language Identity Idiolect Culture Part 1 Accents

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    The old East End dialect is moving out to Essex, says one academic.
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The teens who can barely talk - they only have an 800 word vocabulary - 0 views

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Language Language changes Teenspeak Slang Identity

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    from Daily Mail Online
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Speaking it in the family - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ind-your-language-family-slang

Language Identity Familects Part 1

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  • Jenni Young on 22 Sep 13
     
    Familects - home dialects in which words are given private meanings - reveal that everyone has a creative and playful linguistic story (Guardian)
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Oxford Dictionary Recognizes: YOLO, Amazeballs and Hot Mess - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Oxford Dictionary New words Neologisms Slang

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    The online dictionary added new terms inspired by popular culture and online usage.
  • Jenni Young on 16 Aug 14
     
    The online dictionary added new terms inspired by popular culture and online usage.
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