American Slang will stream here in its entirety until its release on June 15.

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Beneath the big, galloping fun of American Slang lies a unifying theme about the fleeting nature of youth.

NPR: First Listen: The Gaslight Anthem, 'American Slang'

This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.

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We spent one afternoon with well-dressed students at Kim Il Sung University and later at a foreign language high school where very bright 16-year-olds were learning English complete with American slang.

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Sooner or later somebody, usually Charlie, gets around to saying or doing something embarrassingly pretentious, and all at once you remember the alchemic creativity with which the Odets of the 1930s turned working-class slang into poetry, and sigh at the thought of what the American stage lost when he turned his back on the world of "Golden Boy" and "Awake and Sing!"

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While learning American idioms has always been challenging, texting, email and social networks have generated a tidal wave of new slang and abbreviations in English.

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