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Word: blinglish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2005-2005
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...English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian and English street slang, enriched by borrowings from black urban America and Grime, a form of London hip-hop. It's spoken in schools and clubs, on street corners and all over the Internet - anywhere, in fact, where kids enjoy mastering a language that excludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Will Always Be a Blingland | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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