Word: lingos
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Learning the Lingo...
...relaxing attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church, which began to allow cremation in the 1960s. Others are drawn by the convenience and low cost. A traditional funeral runs about $5,800, with burial fees adding $2,000 more. Cremation costs about $1,000. Cremated remains--called cremains in industry lingo--can be kept at home in urns, buried on family property (in all states except California) or scattered...
...have only ABC, CBS and NBC," says Charlie Rutman, president of the ad-buying firm Carat USA. Like any well-targeted niche channel, Spike TV needs men to say, "I wonder what's on Spike?" the way they say, "I wonder what's on ESPN?" In Hecht's marketing lingo, the idea is to build "an emotional connection to the brand...
...face,” meaning roughly, “to fight.” Originally, “fizz” was the way to say “to fight.” But one of Chris’s friends from Spain tried to use the lingo and mispronounced “fizz” as “face.” This amused Chris so much that “fizz” became “face...
...roommates have each adopted the lingo to different degrees. Nick, who loves linguistics, is academically interested in the dialect’s evolution. Kieran, an English concentrator, refuses to allow the slang into his speech. Aaron and Justin, in contrast, have seen the terms slip into their vocabulary...