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Engineered to do it all. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. You might think of slang as a flash in the pan.

Words that are here today and completely outdated tomorrow.

Sometimes those slang surprises you.

Take the word cool.

Would you believe that people were using the word cool to mean good or excellent all the way back in the 1930s?

It's not so new. And if you think about it, what's even more surprising is that right now

a whole new generation of kids use this slang word in pretty much

the same way that it's been used for 75 years. You'll find that and much more in a

new collection of campus slang gathered in the past year and edited by UCLA linguistics professor Pamela Monroe.

Grant, you've seen this of course.

Yeah, this is the sixth edition of the book. It's been published irregularly since 1991 and the great thing about this is its perfect snapshot of youth

language. It's one of the few places you can go to to get a pretty good summary of what

the college kids are saying and while some of this language is of course particular to the

UCLA campus, a lot of it is universal. And as you were saying, it's older than you think.

For example, they still use mooch in a slangy way and that goes back 150 years old yeah and newer stuff

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