Accent and slang

Footballer John Terry speaks differently from British Prime Minister David Cameron. And they may all be ‘geezers’ too.

I WROTE last week about British and American English, but not all British people pronounce their words in the same way, and the same goes for Americans. Now and then, in the course of my teaching over more than three decades, a student would say to me that he or she found it difficult to understand somebody’s “thick English slang”.