America's Secret Slang
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America's Secret Slang

America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar."
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  1. M1 E1 - Guns, Booze, and Politics

    13 April 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    Politics is full of odd phrases like "pork barrel projects," "slush funds," and "lame ducks" -- all of which had practical origins and morphed to mean what they do today.
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  2. M1 E2 - Them's Fighting Words

    13 April 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    Have you ever wondered why someone who can't get it together is called a "basket case"? Or where the term "Yankee" came from?
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  3. M1 E3 - Y'all Speak Country

    20 April 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    The American South has given us words like "y'all" and "rednecks" as well as dozens of colorful phrases like "fly off the handle" and "barking up the wrong tree."
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  4. M1 E4 - Westword Ho!

    27 April 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    Expressions from "riffraff" to "betting your bottom dollar", "passing the buck," "acid test" and even "heard it through the grapevine" all come from America's frontier days. But have you ever wondered why these phrases were first used?
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  5. M1 E5 - Coming to America

    4 Mei 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    Ever wonder why American cowboys say "'git along little doggies" when they're talking about herding cattle?
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  6. M1 E6 - Talking Turkey

    11 Mei 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    Americans have always loved to eat and expressions relating to food--from New York's "big apple" to "wake up and smell the coffee" --pepper our everyday speech. But where did they all come from?
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