Word: slanging
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...worth a thrip." Your footnote (TIME, Nov. 6) on Mr. Glass's rating of Hitler's promises explains thrip as being British slang for the threepenny piece...
...pestiferous, parthenogenetic thrip may well seem comparable to Hitler's promises. But Carter Glass meant a threepenny piece. ("Tizzy" is British slang for sixpence...
...British slang for a three-penny piece...
Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell then turn about and caution their students against slang, thereby making it pretty clear that they do not know 1939 slang from third base. American English gives students some good instruction on how to write different types of prose, address letters and judge a radio program, but even the nice little boys & girls for whom it was written are likely to wonder how Schoolmarms Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell got so chummy with that old goat, the English language. Sample passage...
...slang expressions are appropriate, they should be used without apology (that is, without quotation marks), and if they are not appropriate, they should not be used." Professor Perrin knows slang when he sees it: to park a car is general English; to park your hat is slang...