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In the 1970s, fashion favored careless pronunciation and a language full of jargon, slang and “in” words, a great quantity of which couldn’t be understood by the outside world. What is considered modern and fashionable in Britain today is often not the kind of English taught in...
A month ago I had the pleasing experience of packing for Perth. In South African slang, ‘packing for Perth’ means immigrating to Australia. In the decade that followed thetransition to democracy, around800,000 mainly white South Africans left– some for New Zealand, Britain, and the United...
There wasn't much to do in the battered, half-forgotten seaside resort of Jaywick Sands, Essex—nothing really, except to listen to the North Sea pound against the sea-defences and wait for the next run-down holiday shack to go up like a barbeque torch. Lee and Will were an odd pair,...
2. You’ll learn British slang. Sometimes a lad will get pied by his bird, and he’s down about being mugged off, until he grafts with a right fit girl and they crack on, babe. Oi oi! 3. It may or may not be a reflection of England’s political climate. ...
Spider-Man: No Way Home is out, and stars Zendaya and Tom Holland have kept their relationship no secret. Here, their years-long history.