Slang in Newspaper

        According to Cambridge dictionary. Slang is vocabulary that is used between people who belong to the same social group and who know each other well . Slang is very informal language . It can offend people if it is used about other people or outside a group of people who know each other well . We usually use slang in speaking rather than writing . Slang normally refers to particular words and meanings but can include longer expressions and idioms . Slang is a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are : considered to be very informal more common in speech than in writing typically restricted to a particular context or group of people Slang may be all things to all people . According to the American poet Carl Sandburg ( 1878 - 1967 ) , slang is " language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work ." The Concise Oxford Dictionary is more prosaic : " words, phrases, and uses that are regarded a