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Back slang is not restricted to words spoken phonemically backwards. English frequently makes use of diphthongs, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back slang. An example is trousers and its diphthong, ou, which is replaced with wo in the back slang version ...
This is because of the existence of what I call the back channel, over which the person who has the turn receives short messages such as 'yes' and 'uh-huh' without relinquishing the turn." [ 1 ] Backchannel responses are a part of basic human interaction because to have a productive or meaningful person-person interaction humans must cooperate ...
A discredited alternative theory asserts that it is derived from the Irish word gob or gab ("mouth") [13] or from the Irish phrase Geab ar ais ("back talk, backward chat"). [14] The latter Irish etymology was suggested by Daniel Cassidy, whose work has been criticised by linguists and scholars.
"John got arrested for being drunk and disorderly, the police cuffed him and threw him in the back of the Meat Wagon." Not applicable in the United States, where the term is used to describe a coroner's van, nor in Germany, where a Mietwagen is a hired car. Meat wagon is the name given to ambulances in the UK Memur Bey Common slang used in Turkey.
Backronym: a phrase back-formed by treating a word that is originally not an initialism or acronym as one Replacement Backronym: a phrase back-formed from an existing initialism or acronym that is originally an abbreviation with another meaning; Anagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase
The psychology of dirty talk “hasn’t received a ton of study,” says Justin Lehmiller, Ph.D., a researcher at the Kinsey Institute and MH advisor. But some studies have reported that erotic ...
A long line of stationary or slow-moving traffic extending back from a busy junction or similar obstruction on the road. [161] [162] (US: back up) takeaway food outlet where one can order food to go (or be delivered) (not usually applied to fast food chains). Usage: "we had a takeaway for dinner", "we went to the local takeaway". [DM]; (US ...
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news."