How
Old is your Language?
Tick which word from each pair you are most likely to use.
1. great all right
2. bike cycle
3. crap terrible
4. LP vinyl
5. grotty bad
6. chap guy
7. pissed sloshed
8. Robert Robbie
9. telly box
10. sozzled slaughtered
11. fab excellent
12. wireless radio
13. drunk tipsy
14. stereo record-player
15. granny nan
16. yob chav
17. twit ?????
The right answers are below. Score 1 for each Young ticked. If you get say 8 or above, you are speaking like a person under 30, if you get less than 8 you are speaking like a person over 30. Of course this is very rough and ready!
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Answers to age test: 'young' words have grey background
1. great ¨ all right ¨
2. bike ¨ cycle ¨
3. crap ¨ terrible ¨
4. LP ¨ vinyl ¨
5. grotty ¨ bad ¨
6. chap ¨ guy ¨
7. pissed ¨ sloshed ¨
8. Robert ¨ Robbie ¨
9. telly ¨ box ¨
10. sozzled ¨ slaughtered ¨
11. fab ¨ excellent ¨
12. wireless ¨ radio ¨
13. drunk ¨ tipsy ¨
14. stereo ¨ record-player ¨
15. granny ¨ nan ¨
16. yob ¨ chav ¨
17.