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SYSK Choice: Why Hidden Fees are “Gotcha” Capitalism & The Origins of Slang

Something You Should Know

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The Evolution of Slang

A lot of the words from early hip hop in the 1980s, you'll find in cab Calloway's slang dictionaries from 1938 to 1942. What really fascinates me about slang is how does it get there? Is it that one person makes up a word and starts to use it? The screenwriters who wrote Clueless had a tremendous ear so the ad zeth or whatever with the thumb and the finger showing a W took on a huge life.

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