American Slang Quotes

#1. I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

J.B. Priestley

#2. In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

Ike Turner

#3. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#4. In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.

Jesse Sheidlower

#5. Would you like tickets for tonight's tour? (Andrei)
Like another hole in my head. (Esperetta)
That's American slang for 'no thank you. (Francesca)
Strange. When I was in New York it was slang for 'no fucking way.' (Andrei)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.

John D. Lukacs

#7. The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Rudyard Kipling