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The English School 

International British School in Bogota, Colombia. The school is full of wealthy kids. The yearly tuition at the school costs almost the same as that of private colleges. Many students have personal drivers and sometimes bodyguards.

Many of them end up going to college in other parts of the world, including: the US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Korea, Canada, Japan, etc. During Middle School they take the British GCSE's and during High School they take IBs. All students are 100% bilingual and many of them are trilingual.

The faculty members at the school are primarily British and very talented. They are also, however, crazy. It is common to see the British faculty partying with underaged students: drinking at bars, drinking at a teacher's home, and there have been quite a few scandals of teachers sleeping or hooking up with students (even on the middle of the dance floor during prom!).

After the year 2000 the school suffered a slight decline in prestige due to the high number of "new rich" enrolling. The "old wealth" at the school was not happy.
Common phrases at The English School:

"I can't believe that guy had sex with our bio teacher during his senior trip!"

"No, I can't go to play squash to the country club, we're going to our private island this weekend."

"I remember when the school did not accept the children of drug dealers ("sigh")"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure Donald MacIver (literature and drama teacher) is gay."

Honors English 

A course in which supposed honors- worthy students are placed in, when in reality half the students are just "good kids." An overwhelming amount of reading is assigned, followed by a lot of essay-writing. It doesn't matter whether the students read the books, or used sparknotes to finish the reading assignments. All that matters is that it can be stated that the students read "x" amount of books during the school year.
Honors Student A: Yo, you did the homework for English?!
Honors Student B: No, I don't think anybody did. Nobody even bothered to do sparknotes.

New York English 

A distinct brand of English spoken especially in the NYC metropolitan area, including the buroughs (excl. alot of Manhattan, full of transplants), Long Island, parts of upstate, and a great deal of New Jersey and Connecticut.

Those who portray it as low-class or ugly, forget that some of the finest speakers of the English language, including Robert Rinero and Christopher Walken, have thick New York accents.

Some features it is known for were previously common, but are now disappearing (such as pronouncing "girl" as "goil" which noone except very old men does anymore).

One of the most widespread features is pronouncing the "a" in words Kerry and carry seperately. Most Americans pronounce the short a in words like "carry", "Larry" "vary", and "marry" with an e, giving them the same vowel as "berry".

A slightly less common, but still widespread feature is an additional vowel not used in General American English, often written as "aww. In words like "caught", "long", "off, and sometimes even "dog" or "fog" are pronounced with the lips more rounded into an o-like a. Most Americans and Canadians as well just pronounce it with a long a, as in "father".

One feature that's still easy to find, but not necessarily the norm anymore, is r-dropping, as in other Northeastern US accents, pronouncing "here" and "there" "hee-uh" and "theh-uh". Many of those that don't drop the r at least soften it, or only drop it in some words while speaking quickly.
Some famous speakers of New York English include:
Marlon Brando
Joe Pesci
Donald Trump
Robert Dinero
Christopher Walken
Many many good MC's
Rudy Giuliani
New York English by d.c.r.n.y.c. October 30, 2009

Lazy English 

People who substitute letters in words or change them completly so they don't have to say a longer word.

Waah=Well
Gangsta=Gangster
Lookin'=Looking
Frank: Fo' sho' mufucka

Dave: Sorry man I don't speak Lazy English
Lazy English by Ike Turner May 17, 2008

AP English 

AP English is simply a front, it is not difficult only time consuming, designed to direct young dumb seniors into a more difficult class lacking composition, all is simply boring, repetitive, mindless grammar.
Dude! You're in AP English! That sucks!

Yeah, (poor bastard.)
AP English by gunshow December 15, 2004

Speak English 

This is best defined in this scene from movie The Avengers
Stark : steer control can reverse the pillary long enough to disengage maglav and ....
Cap : Speak ENGLISH
Tony : See that red lever. It will slow the rotors down. Stand by it. Wait for my word
Speak English by Abiral July 16, 2018

timothy english 

the coolest person you could ever meet, the ladies love him, if you have him keep him, if you could get him you are lucky.
pimp, playa, cool guy, timothy english
timothy english by timbo3000 July 31, 2012