Bismillaah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Glossary of How I Speak

OK, so like I mentioned in one of my Introduction posts, here's the Glossary page. This page just has a list of words I tend to use in my day-to-day speech that I might end up writing in a post so as to keep my blog as close to reality as possible. I'll try to keep the slang to a minimum, but sometime's it'll be needed. I'm not gonna insult anyone's streed cred by including the most obvious slang terms (ie. sup, yo). I will include English (more specifically, London) slang terms though. Maybe one day I'll make it big and have an international following :).

aiiiiiiii - alright; OK; yes. (Note: number of i's does not change meaning, just tone)
boydem - police
cotch - chill; sit; relax; nice place to hang out
five-oh - police
hench - big; huge; muscular
hol' tight - look after yourself; be cool; see you later
init - I agree; isn't it; you get me
mandem - his people
manz - his people
on road - outside; on the streets
peng - nice; good-looking; beautiful
popo - police
safe - ok; cool
secular- anything that is non-religious (more specifically, non-Islamic)
s(k)een - ok; I see; I get it
twang - hustle; sweet-talk
whagwan - what's going on; what's up; how are you
yard - home