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By Jonathon Green

Like the flesh-and-blood people whose uncensored feelings it represents, slang's obsessions are intercourse, the physique and its capabilities, and intoxication: drink and medicine. Slang doesn't do type. it really is approximately hatreds - either intimate and and nationwide - concerning the insults that stick to on, the sneers and the put-downs. worrying, sharing and compassion? now not at this tackle. There are over 10,000 phrases concentrating on intercourse, yet love? no longer one.

Jonathon eco-friendly, aka 'Mr Slang', has drawn at the 600,000-plus citations that make up his magisterial Green's Dictionary of Slang (published 2010, now on-line at www.greensdictofslang.com) to inform a few of slang's so much exciting tales. different types diversity from The physique to Pulp Diction, through multi-cultural London English and pun-tastic gems.

Mostly watching up from the gutter, slang, probably strangely, additionally embraces the celebs. those tales might examine drunken sailors, doubtful medical professionals, and a shelf of dangerously powerful cocktails, yet slang does classification acts in addition. None extra so than Shakespeare. Devotee of the double entendre, grasp of the pun, first to place approximately three hundred slang phrases in print.

'Shakespeare, makes use of, at my count number, simply over "slang" phrases, of which 277 are at the moment the 1st recorded use of a given time period. between those are the beast with backs, every mother's son, fat-headed, heifer (for woman), pickers and stealers (hands), small beer (insignificant matters), what the dickens, and lots of more.'

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