ISBN: 9781156606162

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mandarin Chinese Profanity, Indonesian Slang, British Slang, Malakas, Sinhala Slang, Re, Dres, Nonce, Sri Lankan Tamil Slang, Klezmer-Loshn. Excerpt: British slang is English language slang used in Great Britain. While some slang words and phrases are used throughout all of Britain (e.g. knackered, Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mandarin Chinese Profanity, Indonesian Slang, British Slang, Malakas, Sinhala Slang, Re, Dres, Nonce, Sri Lankan Tamil Slang, Klezmer-Loshn. Excerpt: British slang is English language slang used in Great Britain. While some slang words and phrases are used throughout all of Britain (e.g. knackered, meaning "exhausted"), others are restricted to smaller regions, even to small geographical groups. London has its own varieties of slang, one of the most well-known of which is Cockney rhyming slang. . Some of these terms are used in other countries, such as Australia or Canada. Lexicographer Eric Partridge published many works about British slang, most notably A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, currently revised and edited by Paul Beale. Varieties of slang Rhyming slang Main article: Rhyming slang Rhyming slang, chiefly associated with cockney speech spoken in the East End of London, replaces a word with a phrase which rhymes with the word, for example, plates of meat for "feet", or twist and twirl for "girl". Often only the first word is used, so plates and twist by themselves become the colloquialisms for "feet" and "girl". Polari Main article: Polari Polari is a variety of slang used by gay men and lesbians in Britain and the United Kingdom, which has a history going back at least a hundred years. Phrases arse bandit, bender, bent, botter, bum bandit, fairy, marmite miner, pillow biter, poof/poofter, ring raider, shirtlifter, shit stabber, turd burglar, uphill gardener, woofterhomosexual (offensive, derogatory)ball bagscrotumbarneya noisy quarrelberkidiot, irritating person (from Berkeley Hunt, Cockney rhyming slang for cunt )Billyamphetamines (from Billy Whizz, a British comic strip character.); friendless (Billy No-Mates)birdgirl, woman; Also Books, , Slang-By-Language~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Slang By Language, Books Llc, 1156606160, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781156606162

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters:… More...

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mandarin Chinese Profanity, Indonesian Slang, British Slang, Malakas, Sinhala Slang, Re, Dres, Nonce, Sri Lankan Tamil Slang, Klezmer-Loshn. Excerpt: British slang is English language slang used in Great Britain. While some slang words and phrases are used throughout all of Britain (e.g. knackered, Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mandarin Chinese Profanity, Indonesian Slang, British Slang, Malakas, Sinhala Slang, Re, Dres, Nonce, Sri Lankan Tamil Slang, Klezmer-Loshn. Excerpt: British slang is English language slang used in Great Britain. While some slang words and phrases are used throughout all of Britain (e.g. knackered, meaning "exhausted"), others are restricted to smaller regions, even to small geographical groups. London has its own varieties of slang, one of the most well-known of which is Cockney rhyming slang. . Some of these terms are used in other countries, such as Australia or Canada. Lexicographer Eric Partridge published many works about British slang, most notably A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, currently revised and edited by Paul Beale. Varieties of slang Rhyming slang Main article: Rhyming slang Rhyming slang, chiefly associated with cockney speech spoken in the East End of London, replaces a word with a phrase which rhymes with the word, for example, plates of meat for "feet", or twist and twirl for "girl". Often only the first word is used, so plates and twist by themselves become the colloquialisms for "feet" and "girl". Polari Main article: Polari Polari is a variety of slang used by gay men and lesbians in Britain and the United Kingdom, which has a history going back at least a hundred years. Phrases arse bandit, bender, bent, botter, bum bandit, fairy, marmite miner, pillow biter, poof/poofter, ring raider, shirtlifter, shit stabber, turd burglar, uphill gardener, woofterhomosexual (offensive, derogatory)ball bagscrotumbarneya noisy quarrelberkidiot, irritating person (from Berkeley Hunt, Cockney rhyming slang for cunt )Billyamphetamines (from Billy Whizz, a British comic strip character.); friendless (Billy No-Mates)birdgirl, woman; Also Books, , Slang-By-Language~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1156606160

[EAN: 9781156606162], Neubuch, Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: French … More...

[EAN: 9781156606162], Neubuch, Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: French slang, Russian slang,.Shipping may be from our UK, US or Australian warehouse depending on stock availability. This item is printed on demand. 32 pages. 0.077<

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