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They are coined
and used by people to show that they are one of the gang. Slang is used as a protest
against the standard or because of the desire to be original. If a word is widely used, it
ceases to be slang and becomes a neutral word. (Skyscraper, taxi, photo) (But booze
created by Chaucer remained a slang word for centuries.
Slang is formed by word building and also by figures of speech (metaphorupper storey
--head; bread--money; metonymyskirt--woman; hyperbolekilling--astonishing;
ironyas clear as mud; shortening biz--business)
· There is also back slang--a word is written backwards (mur, yob, top o' reeb)
· Rhyming slang (trouble and strife--wife)
· Slang is noted for a great number of synonyms (excellent--old, elegant, fruity,
nasty, tops, wicked; money--bacon, beans, cheese, dirt, dust, oil, snow, tomatoes,
potatoes, etc; drunk--blued, boiled, all wet, fried, pie-eye)
American slang is much more colourful.
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