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...While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our modern lives. Jean S...

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...This is the Book of James paraphrased as a comic book. It's radical dude! Using a modern Australian context and slang, this powerful twenty two page comic book will challenge and perhaps offend some, and it may even change your life! Don't be an Ozzie Ostrich and stick your head in the sand! Take a look!...

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... this book was first published in 1903 and set in the American South, and although the author tries to be open-minded, please be aware that there are slang words used for African Americans.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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...from below dirt level, Empey offers it all here. Also included is Empey's popular Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches which humorously demistifies the slang used by the British soldier. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)...

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...Frith, known as Moll Cutpurse, a woman who had gained a reputation as a virago in the early 17th century. (The term roaring girl was adapted from the slang term roaring boy, which was applied to a young man who caroused publicly, brawled, and committed petty crimes.) The play combines the exploits of the cross-dressed Moll with the amorous adventures of a trio of merchants...

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...e moonbats have long sought to create, but more resembling a third-world, banana republic where English is replaced by twenty-five variations of gang slang, no one gets beyond third grade, rioting and something resembling football with hockey sticks are the national pastimes. There is now a "Forever President," welfare moms have replaced small business, corn is the corners...

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.../SoHo/Museum/8350/war.html http://ldbelveal.net/futbol_war.htm Spam Spam is a slang word. The official term is Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (...

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...hout knowing about it ... paradoxically!!). We made inside jokes, spoke in slang, amused each other while the alcohol had its effect on us. I then ...

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...hout knowing about it ... paradoxically!!). We made inside jokes, spoke in slang, amused each other while the alcohol had its effect on us. I then ...

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... on a Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 78 strictly Gen-X-urban-Western slang level. "What I meant was, did you sleep well?" "Ah, yes. Very well, t...

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...enturies has done that also. All the same, please refrain from using Thai slang. You don't want to sound like a dummy when you talk to me." "No...

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...te of the world. My hosts were all able to converse with me. However their slang phrases escaped me. I guess that in my twenty years of travel a few... ... own education. With the world becoming smaller it was to be expected that slang from one language would invade that of another. But it left me compl...

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... still. Oh, my, what to do? Lacey knew all the technical words and all the slang words as well, for her private parts. She knew what he was going to d... ...s and broke things a lot. This irritated him. And he wished she didn’t use slang all the time. Am I nit-picking about these things in order to avoid a... ...ndered how he could have been concerned about petty things like her use of slang or occasional clumsiness. She never complained, and had a generally s... ...hat I’ll be very happy, no matter what. I love your son to death.” Oh, no, slang! “I want to have a baby and that will keep me busy. After that, we’ll...

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... | | PALMS MAPLE APPLE PLACE PEACE SLUMP SLUMS SLUGS LUNGS SLANG RUSES SEARS SEALS LEANS LANDS ROUSE ROUGE ROUGH HOURS SH...

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... place in it. Granted, languages are living things and develop constantly (consider slang, or the emergence of infinite numbers theories in mathemat...

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... really don't have a ” problem with Ebonics, the idiomatic African American slang of our generation. I just wish that words such as fat and scared w...

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...English without license or fee, and you can innovate by producing new words, slang, or phrases without clearance from some Academie Anglaise. After yo... ...l of science and culture—the world of folk music or 1950s jazz, of jokes and slang and recipes, of Ray Charles’s “rewording” of gospel songs, or of Is...

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... The expression “to get a fix on” something, as currently used in American slang, originally came, I understand, from a sailor’s way of locating himse...

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...ally important undertaking; his quid of tobacco rolled into his cheek, his sea slang, his garrulity, his never ending stock of narrative, his love of ...