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What happen to the days when people spoke and you didn’t have to type it up on Google to find out what they are saying to you? I understand and speak Ebonics myself, but my nieces, nephew, and my children’s generation had taken it to a whole new level of words that are not even in the English dictionary. They toke two completely different words combine together only to form a whole new word. Not like when I was growing up where we took the words and just change its meaning and sometime played on the spelling of the word.
In the 90’s Men used to say to women you look phat in those jeans. Which he is, she is looking pretty hot and tempting which he expressing how good she is looking in what she is wearing. If she didn’t understand what he was …show more content…
Peaches Monroe posted a video on June 21, 2014 where she was heard by millions all over the word saying these words “We in this bitch. Finna get crunk. Eyebrow on fleek. Da fug.” Some say the word fleek came from combining fly and sleek together to form a completely new word. The Word fleek is not found in our dictionary and it proven hard to find any reliable source to agree on its meaning or origin. Alex Russel wrote a blog on the “Fleek: A Definitive History.” The blog gave two possible meanings of what fleek could possible mean. It stated the word fleek was founded in an old Welsh-English dictionary from 1803, written by a man named William Owen Pughe. Which defines fleek to be a translation of Mwythus which means puffed up, fleek, delicate or nice. Another source that he says it located fleek in a book name “Plutarch’s Lives” written in the 1st Century, translated fleek as sleek as it pertain to its passages. …show more content…
You can find it use in advertising by I Hop to describe how there pancakes are on fleek. Some celebrities such as Ariana Grande has been heard singing a cappella song about on Fleek from its original vine video. Little did Peaches Monroe know when she posted her vine video that she would resurrected such an ancient word that would cause so much controversy over its origin and meaning? Fleek and its complex origin is here to stay whether you would like to use the 1803 version by William Owen Pughe or the 1801 translation of “Plutarch’s Lives” that was written in the 1st century which translate it as to mean sleek. Fleek is one of the top trending word for now. However you use it or however you translate it fleek is always going to be on
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