The Sun is not the first tabloid newspaper you'd associate with features about language (that would be The Daily Mail), but today's edition contains a piece giving lots of examples of different types of slang from various occupational and lifestyle groups. For example, did you know that in hip-hop culture 'cheese' is slang for money, or that an 'Olympic flame' is a police officer that never goes out (ha-ha!). Read more here.
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July 28, 2010
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