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54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Slang Without Drugs

I think sport and military in both cases, it's by their very nature. They are both a form of team games. This is some sometimes it does bubble over when again, it's down to people. If you go back to the First World War, you've got this trench vocabulary that's being used by all participants. And although it is technically jargon, it spills over into the world. I remember in World War II, my father had been Dunkirk and whatever. He'd never talk about porridge. He'd talk about Burgoo. But somehow, because enough people had used it, it had my father met it in the army. And he brought it back out. So

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