Sentence examples for our slang from inspiring English sources

The condescension of our euphemisms and the impertinence of our slang both testify to our discomfort about confronting the facts of age head-on.

Because this year is the year that the middle classes seized control of our slang.

Our slang is slightly different, though.

What is not new, however, is that white people of the middle and upper class have always wanted in on our slang and dance moves.

"I tell them to imagine that all of us wrote a play together using our slang words, like 'cool' or 'dude,' and that play gets buried for 400 years," she said.

And while we are indeed responsible for the high quality of our slang and for an unfortunate predilection for using like as a form of punctuation, Americans, I am here to say, are not all bad for English.

I work in threat assessment; I've done research on stalking, and have a deeper understanding of the behavior than most, and yet I still fall prey to using our societal slang with such ease.

We have our own slang, our own pop-culture touchstones, and, some say, our own accent.

If you go on Wikipedia and look up "Boston accent", there is a full list of our mispronunciations and slang.

So the old sports cheer used by so many schools referring to "bits" has a genuine historical significance, and our use of "bits" referring to various amounts of our currency is not slang.

It became our gimmick – Black Country slang – years before text speak.