Informal (colloquial) styles have their own specific features. Informal vocabulary is used in one’s immediate surrounding: family, friends, relatives, and is considerably relaxed, familiar and easy.
Informal words and word groups are traditionally divided into
1) colloquial a) literary – colloquial:
math, stuff, chap
b) familiar colloquial:
doc, hi, shut up, to kid somebody
c) low colloquial: = uncultivated
2) slang - new or current words with some special sense:
E.g. saucers = eyes; dogs = feet; trap = mouth; boozy, high = drunk
3) dialect words - varieties prevailing in a district, with local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation and phrase.
E.g. shamrock = clover; bairn = child; glamour = charm
4) argot (concerned with secrecy )
E.g. rap = kill; shiv = knife; book = a life sentence
5) Professionalisms : metaphor; morpheme; transitive/intransitive, etc.
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