{"id":1777,"date":"2008-12-17T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:12:55","slug":"last-man-standing-british-terms-first-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-british-terms-first-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: British Terms First Learned Through Specific Rock Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><ins><strong><em>For those who won&#8217;t &#8211; who can&#8217;t &#8211; wave the white flag, this Last Man Standing has returned to The Main Stage!<\/em><\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>I was listening to <strong>The Who&#8217;s &#8220;Magic Bus&#8221;<\/strong> the other day and it occurred to me that I first learned the word <em><strong>queue<\/strong><\/em> while grooving to this song. To this point, who knows how many British terms and slang I&#8217;d learned from The Beatles and The Stones, but I distinctly remember becoming aware of this <em>queue<\/em> word thanks to &#8220;Magic Bus&#8221;. I was probably 13 or 14. In coming years I&#8217;d learn many more British terms and slang through rock songs. I&#8217;m sure you did too. In this week&#8217;s Last Man Standing, I ask that you recount British terms\/slang and the specific rock songs that first exposed you to these words. It&#8217;s all right if more than one of you were first exposed to the word <em>lorry<\/em>, for instance, by two different songs.<\/p>\n<p>Townspeople from outside the US are welcome to share the converse, American expressions first learned through specific rock songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who won&#8217;t &#8211; who can&#8217;t &#8211; wave the white flag, this Last Man Standing has returned to The Main Stage! I was listening to The Who&#8217;s &#8220;Magic Bus&#8221; the other day and it occurred to me that I first learned the word queue while grooving to this song. To this point, who knows <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-british-terms-first-le\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}