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I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.