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...Committee on Education can recognize hypocrisy when they see it. They know that the language heard in the Commonwealth is no more related to the Queen's English than is Governor Dever to the Queen. What passes in the streets and subways as "English" is punctured with slang, idioms, and grammatical contortions...
...replied that he thought Morris, to do a bangup job, should be able to promise cooperative key witnesses immunity from prosecution. The immunity was his own idea, he said, and there wasn't any bug under the chip (meaning concealed or secret, according to The American Thesaurus of Slang...
...spite of his classical learning, which he still pursues with delight, he lards his speech with outmoded slang and zealously drops the g's of his present participles. He is a jester, a moralist, a preacher and-even off the bench-a judge. Socially he is unpredictable. A tall story, for example, may find him just politely receptive, with a sideways turn of the head, a half-attentive smile, and a "Well, you don't say." Or it may immediately detonate an incredulous guffaw, ending with a murmured "Well, by golly! Can you beat that...
...five writers are guided by a short list of "do's," e.g., the Ranger always speaks good English, is always on the side of law & order, and a longer list of "don'ts," e.g., the Ranger never smokes, swears, drinks, shoots to kill, has love affairs, uses slang or does any wrong of any kind...
...split-second technicians have taken over an old slang word to describe their work. In the language of the laboratory, a shake is now a precise interval, meaning one hundred-millionth of a second...