Colloquial English in Comics and Songs - Notes
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Idiom, phrasal verb or slang |
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ain't |
You ain't fair |
You aren't fair | ||||||||
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'cos / coz |
You ain't goin' coz I said so |
You aren't going because I said so | ||||||||
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dunno |
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| 'em | We'll show 'em | We will show them | ||||||||
| gimme | Ma. Gimme some money | Mummy, please give me some money | ||||||||
| gonna | I'm gonna buy one | I'm going to buy one | ||||||||
| gotta / godda | I gotta go | I have got to go | ||||||||
| lemme | Lemme see | Let me see | ||||||||
| lotta | I gotta lotta problems, man | I have got a lot of problems, old fruit. | ||||||||
| Whatcha | Whatcha gonna do now? | What are you going to do now? | ||||||||
| wanna | He doesn't wanna go | He doesn't want to go | ||||||||
| ya | Ya crazy! | You are mad |
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And now test yourself... |
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