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Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
slopjockey: the chef.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
those who like a potter with a putter.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
language is both endlessly regenerative and curiously circular.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
I still have some of those early scribblings. Many of them hint at the nerd I was to become.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
Richard Whiteley (‘Did the inventor of the door knocker win the no-bell prize?’)
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
the slanguage of the armed forces is one that few civvies can understand.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
as the linguist John McWhorter pithily put it, today we ‘talk with our fingers’.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
‘we live by the Golden Rule: those who have the gold make the rules’.