Word: slang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supreme triumph, it was what the British call in tennis a "noble effort." Whatever else can be said, it remains true that those "golden girls and lads" have been memorizing lines of immortal reputation, instead of ephemeral slang of the period; and what we memorize at twenty stays by us, as Mr. Kittredge knew when he assigned those hundreds of lines to be reproduced at midyears and finals...
...scientific optimism, plunging through the literature of the subject, digging out the facts for his own benefit and the instruction of the vast audience won by his tales of microbe-hunting, hunger-fighting heroes of the test tube. Last week he published his findings, in a mixture of laboratory slang, movie-travelogue lyricism and man-to-man locker-room candor, in The Male Hormone (Harcourt Brace...
...coarseness of speech, the slang and profanity, the rude, selfish manners, loud raucous laughter, the low standards of taste . . . the passion of our vile movies, our viler music, the craze for maniacal gyrations, euphemistically called the modern dance . . . are characteristic of a growing number of our youth today...
...first study of slang in this small community, a self-contained unit ideally suited for the purpose, was made in 1930 by Leonard W. Merryweather of the Mooseheart School. Recently Psychologist Edmund Kasser made a second study. In the current Journal of Genetic Psychology he reports that...
...slang words used in 1930, only 18 survive in the current slang vocabulary of 78 words. (The decline, says Kasser, is the result of better teaching...