BRITISH SLANGS FOR IELTS (Part 36)

• ™Speciality - This is another one where you chaps drop your "I". when I first saw specialty written down in the US I thought it was a mistake. But no! We love our I's!

• Spend a penny - To spend a penny is to go to the bathroom. It is a very old fashioned expression that still exists today. It comes from the fact that in ladies loos you used to operate the door by inserting an old penny.

• Splash out - If you splash out on something - it means you throw your senses out the window, get out your credit card and spend far too much money. You might splash out on a new car or even on a good meal.

• Squidgey - A chocolate cream cake would be squidgey. It means to be soft and, well, squidgey!

• Squiffy - This means you are feeling a little drunk. Some people also use it to mean that something has gone wrong.

• Starkers - Avoid being seen starkers when visiting England. It means stark naked.

• Stiffy - Yet another word for erection.

• Stone the crows - This is an old expression with the same meaning as "cor blimey".

• Stonker - This means something is huge. Looking at the burger you might say "blimey what a stonker". It is also used to refer to an erection! Clearly English modesty is a myth!

• Stonking - This weird word means huge. You might say "what a stonking great burger" if you were in an American burger joint.