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Leave My Pants Alone: An Expat Fights the Creep of British Slang

Corinne Purtill | Posted 02.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
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Corinne Purtill

Language evolves. I get that. But it was jarring to arrive in London from New York and hear the degree to which so many American expatriates allow the slang of our host country to colonize their speech.

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You're Only Going to Understand What I Mean By Peng if You're My Kind of Person...

Professor Julie Coleman | Posted 15.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
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Professor Julie Coleman

Newspapers have been reporting that Sheffield Springs Academy has decided to ban slang in an attempt to improve their students' employability. By all means teach them how to speak appropriately, but isn't that like telling children not to put peas up their nose?

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5 Useful Pieces of British Slang

Delia Lloyd | Posted 29.08.2011 | UK Lifestyle
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Delia Lloyd

From time to time, I enjoy sharing the wonderful peculiarities of British English I encounter during everyday life over here in the U.K. A few years back, I identified that inimitable term, trouser tenting, to capture that time in the morning when a gentleman might be - how to say? - more alert, aroused or otherwise excited.

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