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GTL, DTS, and T-shirt time: a look at Jersey Shore’s lingo

As a New Jersey native and self-confessed reality TV junkie, I enjoy watching the television show Jersey Shore, and recognizing some of the local vocabulary  – terms like benny (a non-local who comes down to the Shore, usually used in a pejorative sense) and youse (an informal plural of ‘you’). The show also introduced me to [...]

Posted on: May 25 2011 | Posted by: | Comments: 1 | Categories: English in use, Varieties of English, Word trends and new words | Tags: , , , , ,

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