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Should schools ban slang from the classroom?

Video    The Guardian    11 December 2013

A south London school's decision

to ban certain slang words was widely derided

but it also attracted some high-profile support.

Do children know instinctively

what type of language to use in different social settings,

or does this knowledge need to be instilled with strict bans?

Lindsay Johns,

a writer who mentors young people in London,

debates the issue with writer and professor of children's literature

Michael Rosen

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8vD8dvjNxM

Beale, Paul, ed., Eric Partridge,

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,

8th edition, London, Routledge, 2002.

246x189: 1440pp        ISBN: 0-415-29189-5        £25.00

orders@routledge.co.uk
info.languages@routledge.com

www.partridge-slang.com

Internet slang        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/10/
ban-internet-slang-steven-poole-derp-amazeballs-lulz-wtf

UK slang

A Dictionary of English Slang & Colloquialisms

An insight into the informal language of the UK

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

20th century > UK > East London slang > phrase >

Hackney Diamonds        UK

The phrase Hackney Diamonds

is old east London slang

for broken glass

and specifically refers

to the shattered glass that results

when windows are smashed

during a robbery.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/04/
rolling-stones-to-release-details-
about-first-album-of-original-songs-since-2005

US slang

https://www.slangsite.com/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/23/
587867730/from-bonk-to-bombs-and-fly-swat-a-guide-to-olympic-slang

http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/07/21/
423297371/12-lost-american-slangisms-from-the-1800s

https://archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/
the-slang-patrol-3/  

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/06/opinion/
100000001037580/bloggingheads-grammatical-slang-yo.html

old New York slang        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/26/
theater/hughie-eugene-oneill-new-york-slang-quiz.html

jazz slang        USA

http://www.npr.org/event/music/467259732/
a-dive-into-jazz-slang-you-dig -  February 18, 2016

USA > slang > slangisms

http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/07/21/
423297371/12-lost-american-slangisms-from-the-1800s

Randy Kearse's

dictionary of urban slang terms > “Street Talk”        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/nyregion/
10books.html

Urban Dictionary

online dictionary

that lets anyone contribute

words and definitions

(...)

The site was started in 1999

by Aaron Peckham,

then a college freshman.

Since then, it has become an archive

for nearly any new term or slang word,

particularly those used

to describe the behavior and activities

that have risen

because of social media and the web.

More than seven million definitions

of words, acronyms and phrases

are listed on the site,

and 2,000 definitions are added daily.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/technology/a-lexicon-of-the-internet-updated-by-its-users.html

https://www.urbandictionary.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/
technology/a-lexicon-of-the-internet-updated-by-its-users.html

Cockney rhyming slang        UK

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/articles/cockney-rhyming-slang.htm 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2310209.stm

"egg and spoon"

- rhyming slang for "coon"    (racist)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/15/
race.world

crude slang term        USA

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/22/
460729830/donald-trump-slams-hillary-clinton-using-crude-slang-term

school > ban slang        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2013/dec/09/
should-schools-ban-slang-video-debate

bonk

sex kicks

love rat

broad

sizzling romp

bummer / rear

filthy language

foul language

offensive language        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/25/
425971171/3-things-to-know-about-nprs-policy-regarding-offensive-language

derogatory

spaz        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/apr/11/
golf.tigerwoods 

dirty joke

obscenities

profanity        USA

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/
why-do-educated-people-use-bad-words/

the C-word        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/jul/11/
in-praise-of-the-c-word

old fart

nick

piss off

laugh one's bollocks off

get pissed

a pain in the ass

Peter is beginning to piss me off big time

I'm really pissed at him

We're buggered!

he screwed up big time

screw sb up

shag

blow job

blow

bastard

bugger

frigging ridiculous

sod

shit

absolutely shit

give a shit

be in deep shit

shitbag

holy shit!

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TrS0uNBuG9c - LWT - 13 August 2017

shitty

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TrS0uNBuG9c - LWT - 13 August 2017

bullshit

bullshitter

beat the shit out of N

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=HjJBSmXxLsY - 2 February 2016

ass

dumb ass

asshole

goon        USA

https://www.urbandictionary.com/
define.php?term=Goon

https://www.gocomics.com/clayjones/2023/10/04

cop

copper

pokey

https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2024/09/01

cunt

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/jul/11/
in-praise-of-the-c-word

pussy

twat

slag

balls

bollocks

talk bollocks

bitch

Bitches Brew

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bitches%20Brew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew

spastic    (very offensive)

son of a bitch

religious expletives

damn

hell

What the hell is going on?

blime

dickhead

craphouse (UK)

John (US)

boobs / tits

hard-on

get laid

prick

prize prick

motor / wheel

plonk        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/jan/19/
food.research

cig

fit

wee

gear

dough

whack

take off

jerk off

dawg

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dawg 

Tintin > Blistering barnacles!        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/mar/28/
books.news 

Corpus of news articles

Language > Slang

No Swearing

in South Pasadena This Week

March 6, 2008

Filed at 11:32 a.m. ET

The New York Times

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 

SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- What the @$%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.

So if you're headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don't even think about flipping her the bird.

Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail in light of the proclamation passed Wednesday by the City Council. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.

''That's one of the purposes of this,'' Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city's proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. ''It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.''

The proclamation will be in effect until Friday, and then the first week of every March hereafter.

South Pasadena, a tranquil city of tree-shaded cottages at the base of a mountain range eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, isn't the first to try to rein in potty mouths. Earlier this year, the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Mo., proposed banning swearing in bars. Last year, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons called for an industrywide ban on racially and sexually charged epithets.

But what's different about the latest push to stop saying in public the words that Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton recently discovered we still can't say on television is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.

''My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them,'' said McKay Hatch, the founder of South Pasadena High School's No Cussing Club, during a recent break between study hall and tennis practice.

''I've cussed before, I'm not gonna lie to you,'' Hatch quickly added. ''But I try not to cuss any more.''

He was in junior high school when he became fed up with all the blue language around him.

He understood why his friends use foul language: ''They just want to fit in like everybody else and they don't know how. They figure if they cuss maybe it's an easy way to do that.''

But it wasn't for him.

''I finally told my friends, `I don't cuss.' And I said, `If you want to hang out with me, you don't cuss.'''

It took a couple of years, but enough friends finally came around that Hatch formed a 50-member club, handed out fliers and called the group's first meeting, held June 1.

Nine months later, the No Cussing Club has a Web site, claims 10,000 members and boasts chapters in several states and countries. Hatch considers his greatest achievement, though, to be getting his hometown of 25,000 to become a cuss-free zone.

He hopes to encourage cuss-free zones in other cities to improve the quality of life.

''You have to start with the little things,'' he said.

------

On the Net:

http://www.nocussing.com

No Swearing in South Pasadena This Week,
NYT,
6.3.2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/
aponline/us/AP-Cuss-Free-Zone.html - broken link

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