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London school bans slang

October 16th, 2013
02:58 PM ET

In a crackdown on urban slang, London's Harris Academy has banned the use of the words "coz", "bare", "innit", and "aint". The school has also forbidden beginning sentences with "Basically..." and ending them with "...yeah".

Becky talks to a BAFTA award winning actor, a London MP, and a sixth form student about the London school's war on slang.

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