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There were other signs that Whitlam's six-day visit was more amicable than might have been expected. The British press gave the Whitlams a markedly friendly reception: MR. DOWN-UNDER COULD BE TOPS, said a Sunday Telegraph headline. The Dally Mail delved into Aussie slang to describe Mrs. Whitlam as "a 'beaut sheila' indeed,"-meaning, roughly, a swell dame. On the government's part, Prime Minister Edward Heath thoughtfully invited the four Whitlam children, aged 19 to 29, who had gathered in London for a family reunion, to join their parents at a state dinner...
...second-to-last generation of Bad Cobs. "My son, who is 50 years old, is only a young buck," he explained. In Oglala slang, a "young buck" is an unmarried male...
...unfortunate that the Code and Rating Administration will not let kids see it in theaters unless their parents (or "an adult guardian") can get them past Wattstax's R classification. Such a harsh rating was assigned presumably because of the scruffy slang in the film, the sort of language street kids hear and use every day. It is a part of life that they all share, but one that the censors, by some convoluted hypocrisy, would forbid them onscreen...
...English, bears no real relationship to the dialect's grammatical structure. Words such as 'chick' for woman, 'squares' for cigarettes, 'hog' for Cadillac, and 'bread' for money are simply colorful additions to Black English and have little to do with the substance of the dialect. In fact, mistaking black slang as Black English leads to the conclusion that the dialect is merely a corruption of English. For example, 'bread' for money is actually a Cockney idiom...
Their disguises and slang could have come directly from Alex's own gang. DANIEL R. WALTERS Managing Editor Times-Standard Eureka, Calif...