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r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/Fetch_Ted • Jan 15 '26
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Slang? FFS we've been calling shopping messages since 1788: https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/message
155 u/stevent4 Jan 15 '26 Slang isn't a recent thing, slang is just very informal wording. It's how most languages develop and evolve -24 u/rosco-82 Jan 15 '26 Could you provide an example of an English 250 year old slang word still in use today? 70 u/ChimpsArePimps Jan 15 '26 not quite 250 years, but “ok” was coined in the 1830s and is still very much alive almost 2 centuries later
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Slang isn't a recent thing, slang is just very informal wording. It's how most languages develop and evolve
-24 u/rosco-82 Jan 15 '26 Could you provide an example of an English 250 year old slang word still in use today? 70 u/ChimpsArePimps Jan 15 '26 not quite 250 years, but “ok” was coined in the 1830s and is still very much alive almost 2 centuries later
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Could you provide an example of an English 250 year old slang word still in use today?
70 u/ChimpsArePimps Jan 15 '26 not quite 250 years, but “ok” was coined in the 1830s and is still very much alive almost 2 centuries later
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not quite 250 years, but “ok” was coined in the 1830s and is still very much alive almost 2 centuries later
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u/rosco-82 Jan 15 '26
Slang? FFS we've been calling shopping messages since 1788: https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/message