Show the future s english did you know that many of the words you think of as slang today will some day be accepted as perfectly good words to use this is the way it happens when people are impressed by a new happening they sometimes use an old word in a new way in referring to that thing for instance the puri itans tans used to cast lots for the own 0 iship of land and other things of value and so lots soon came to mean the pieces of land grit referring to courage was once a slang word but has become an accepted part of our language many of the popular words of today because of their expressiveness will do their part as everyday words in the future washington star |