Having just picked up on Jeremy Jacobs talking about the Emma Thompson news article about slang,Here are the links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11420737
http://www.jeremyjacobs.com/?p=3117
I wanted reply to this with an image from the world of books, but you can’t post images in comments.
I suppose the problem with slang is you just can’t remove it from the language, much as some of us may want to.
