Sentence examples for the local lingo from inspiring English sources

Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair tackles the local lingo: So, are we doing this right?

For U.C.L.A., to use the local lingo, there is no such thing as a rewrite.

By Harriet Gibsone, writer Learn the local lingo: bus phrases like "single to south square please".

Now, hip (chévere in the local lingo) eateries are popping up practically on top of one another.

But the younger generation of liberated blacks, whites and have-it-your-way hippies contribute nothing to the local lingo.

You can learn the fundamentals of grammar in class but every language student will tell you that what really sets you apart is knowing the local lingo.

IN Eagles Mere in central Pennsylvania, many of the cottagers (local lingo for second-home owners) spent their first summers in diapers on the beach at Eagles Mere Lake.

Sunday 10 a.m. 9) CATCH A WAVE Surf shops offering lessons and board rentals line the Pacific Coast Highway (P.C.H. in local lingo), but Kai Sanson of Zuma Surf and Swim Training (949-742-1086; www.zsstraining.com) takes his fun seriously.

Local Lingo: "Sun Valley" technically applies only to the town around the lodge and the ski resort two miles away.

With their offer accepted, they asked the owner for a discount, or, in local lingo, they "gazundered".

Experienced Brazilian center-back Tiago Calvano isn't necessarily one – while playing for Sydney FC in Australia, the former Sunderland and Leeds United player Michael Bridges schooled the big Brazilian in the local Geordie lingo.