I've been collecting slang and and publishing books about it for 30 years. My database contains 125,000 words and phrases and they keep coming.
One thing I've learnt - the more slang changes, to half-inch the well-known phrase, the more slang stays the same.
Politically correct, even polite: I fear not. But humanity at its most human, absolutely.
As examples I offer a selection of terms that display some of slang's nuts and bolts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27405988Statistics: Posted by annie — 19 May 2014, 08:19
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