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Fuelled by music fandom and social media, young British people\u2019s slang is evolving to include words with pidgin, patois and Arabic roots \u2013 even where strong regional English dialects exist\nThere\u2019s a video format spreading on TikTok. Recorded in towns across suburban England, teenage interviewers stop their peers on the street, fielding questions that range from fashion choices to humorous hypotheticals and local neighbourhood dramas, in the process building a large social media following and showcasing their patch of land to the world. \u201c950 [pounds] for that, you know my ting,\u201d a teenage white boy says about his Canada Goose jacket in a video recorded in Bury St Edmunds. \u201cWe\u2019re checking his drip, ya dun know, you heard my man,\u201d someone says in another video.
\nBoth the hosts and many of the interviewees speak with this distinct drawl \u2013 Multicultural London English (MLE), a dialect born in London\u2019s African-Caribbean communities in the 1970s and 80s. (Some now argue that \u201cBlack British English\u201d is a more fitting term.) It\u2019s rooted in Jamaican patois with influences from cockney, and more recently Arabic, the US and West African Pidgin English. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fuelled by music fandom and social media, young British people\u2019s slang is evolving to include words with pidgin, patois and Arabic roots \u2013 even where strong regional English dialects exist There\u2019s a video format spreading on TikTok. Recorded in towns across suburban England, teenage interviewers stop their peers on the street, fielding questions that range …<\/p>\n