How English uses rhyming slang

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hello lovely students and welcome back

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to English with Lucy today we're going

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to be covering the topic of slang but

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more importantly rhyming slang I'm going

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to teach you how and why we use phrases

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like holy moly

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nitty-gritty fuddy-duddy

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higgledy-piggledy it's the ultimate

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vocabulary grammar and slang and

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pronunciation lesson today I'm going to

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teach you about something that most

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native speakers won't even realize they

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do and they certainly wouldn't be able

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to explain why we're going to talk about

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rhyming reduplication before we get

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started two important points number one

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box it's got everything we cover today

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lots of examples plus a quiz so you can

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