But perhaps more than any other presidential contest, 2008's could help determine whether the dark horse, a term borrowed from English racetrack lingo, is on the verge of extinction, particularly since the entry fee in the race for the White House has been raised yet again.
Often seemingly imprisoned in teenage bedrooms, everyone is talking all the time: a tidal wave of rapid, high-pitched, Valley Girl inflections, the spiel of YouTube bedroom celebrities mashed with corporate catchphrases and the broken English of bots and programming lingo.
The BBC's Today programme, which asked whether any of its listeners' examples of kitchen table lingo should enter the English lexicon, in some ways missed the point.
It's interesting to note that VIPKID does not seem to be focused right now on moving outside of its core focus of teaching English, and a smaller business called Lingo Bus focused on teaching Mandarin to kids globally.
Dre lingo for "side project" — With.
Mitt Romney, then 11, became an eager sidekick, patiently translating rapid-fire English on the television and providing lessons on American lingo.
In a process known as relexicalisation, kitchen table lingo generally uses the same grammar as English but a different vocabulary, the creation of which falls into clear categories.
After acting in the provinces, primarily at York, he first appeared on the stage in Dublin in 1794 and made his London debut in 1803 in the role of Lingo in The Agreeable Surprize, by the English dramatist Samuel Foote.
I wish this were a creative re-imagination of the English language as one often sees in hip hop lingo, but no, it is altogether unintentional.
