As you should now be aware the kids I worked with had their own dialect. In retrospect this was as much a security protocol as it was a teen thing.  In many regards it was almost a complete language of their own. Some of the words we are already familiar with; John and Husky. There is also Bull’s, both young bulls and old bulls. There are Heads; these also come in both the aged and youthful variety. Those from Pittsburgh talk of you as part of their large extended family – Cus’.

There is Real Rapp, I have no idea if there is a counterfeit Rapp problem. I am constantly told that the kids have ‘got him’ I never have a clue who or what he is, nor do I ever know he has escaped until he has been caught again. There are ‘shiv’s’ and ‘fee-fee’s’. There are ‘bricks’, ‘the streets’ and ‘the outs’. When these pesky miscreants think they have deceived me they scream ‘psyke’!

The list of words is near endless and trying to understand them all could almost be an academic discipline. The words come and go, they become fashionable and then fade away. They are then revived by a new batch of intakes and these kids think they are the first to have invented them.

Every now and again a truly new word comes to our world. When this happens it is a moment of great confusions, but also excitement. Sometimes the etymology of these new words are clear, more often we have no idea where it has come from. Sometimes we understand the meaning of these words straight away, other times we are left in the dark.

Cleveland and Lambchop have discovered a brand new word. The word is Slab. We have absolutely no fucking clue what a slab is. Slab is clearly pejorative, and it is meant to cause offence. We know this because the kids use it when we are there and then laugh. We act all indignant and then they apologies. We only do this because we have learned we must. For in all honesty we are totally clueless as to what it could possibly mean.

We know only this.

Slab can be one quick syllable or it can be slow and drawn out so it almost becomes its own sentence.

Changing the tone in which you say it, seems to leave its meaning unchanged but increases the amount of mirth the others naughties glean from its use.

History tells us it probably means nothing

The kids that use it are ass clowns. but then they all are.

The investigation continues.