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Mosja Posted 7 years ago
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Is this sentence natural?

Is this sentence natural in spoken English?

Me: Can we video call at 4?

Ex mate: I got work to do at 4. Maybe 9?

Me: K. as long as my wife isn't with me, I'll call you.

Any slang for the word wife?

  

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mosja Is this sentence natural in spoken English? It's a dialogue, but yes. mosja Any slang for the word wife?

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  • mosja Is this sentence natural in spoken English?
  • It's a dialogue, but yes.
  • mosja Any slang for the word wife?
  • Most expression for "wife" are derogatory, jocularly if you're lucky.
  • Some examples: Relatively innocuous: my better half Somewhat offensive: the little woman, my old lady So rough they have to be taken as a joke: the old ball and chain, the old millstone, my squaw I have discovered that opinions differ as to the appropriateness of those terms, especially among the wives in question.
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mosjaIs this sentence natural in spoken English?

It's a dialogue, but yes.

mosjaAny slang for the word wife?

Most expression for "wife" are derogatory, jocularly if you're lucky. Some examples:

Relatively innocuous: my better half

Somewhat offensive: the little woman, my old lady

So rough they hav

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eg my better half

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To add, "the wife" is said - and is a little bit slang.
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mosjaAny slang for the word wife?

See 4 here https://pronunciationstudio.com/cockney-rhyming-slang/

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