Sentence examples for slang survives from inspiring English sources
Other slang survives for centuries, like "bones" for dice (Chaucer), "beat it" for run away (Shakespeare), "duds" for clothes, and "booze" for liquor (Dekker).
By the early 20th century, Chinook Jargon was virtually extinct in the United States (with the exception of a few words used locally as slang), but it survived a few decades longer in British Columbia.
Instead he turned it into a novel - although the slang glossary and illustrations survived - and the rest was not history, but something more cutting edge (futurology perhaps?).
Frim fram is one of the oldest terms surviving as slang, cited in John Heywood's 1546 book of proverbs: "she maketh earnest matters of every flymflam," about a woman easily deceived.
Others survive as (ex-army) slang.
He nodded in agreement as Mr. Cassidy explained that Irish survived in New York as slang.
The rate of turnover in slang words is undoubtedly encouraged by the mass media, and a term must be increasingly effective to survive.
Slang GPU Shading Language.
