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Hello everybody. Welcome to the show show this is the third in a series of episodes all

about British slang in previous episodes I've covered slang terms from A to C and slang terms from D to G.

So in this one we're going to continue my list of slang starting with the letter H.

Slang of course means informal vocabulary which kind of

which means words that you tend to use with your friends in informal situations.

Slang is not normally appropriate for formal contexts,

for example, business meetings,

or if you ever meet the Queen, for example, you shouldn't use

slang in that situation. Obviously it's very unlikely that you're going to meet the Queen,

but I don't know. I don't know who you are maybe you're a head of state maybe

you know you're the the prime minister of a country somewhere and you're listening to

Luke's English podcast in order to know exactly how you

should communicate with different types of people. Well if you are one of those

people then you can use slang to kind of like hang out with some English-speaking people in the bar or in a coffee

shop or something. But when it comes time for you to meet the Queen, for example, in a very

formal and very posh situation this is not the kind of

language you should be using but if you want to know how to chat and to converse with native speakers of English in a natural way or if you just

want to understand a lot of natural British English when you hear it, for example in movies or TV shows or just

generally online, then these words will be important for you. So I've created a list of slang terms, some of these terms,

some of the items in this list I just copied from, lists that already existed online, some of the terms I just added

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