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Lad mag
Professor David Crystal
Lad mag. Lad mags. Let s look at  mag , first of all 
shortened form of the word  magazines .  You got these
mags?  that s been around quite a long time.  Lad , the
other part - a young man, or somebody who acts like a
young man.  I feel like a lad, sometimes. And you put the
two things together and you get  a lad mag . In other
words, a magazine for men.
And usually, the term is with reference to the kind of soft
porn magazines that you find on the top shelf of
newsagents. But, actually, it has a more general usage too.
I mean, lad mags can be any magazines with a male
orientation  so I ve heard the word used for magazines
about motorbikes and tech-y magazines  that is,
magazines to do with technical subjects  or adventures
stories have sometimes been called  lad mags .
Written, by the way, sometimes as a single word, and sometimes as two
words   lad mag  I m not quite sure which is the most common usage
at the moment. But there is one thing and that is that it isn t just a male
prerogative, this kind of coinage. Women s magazines, like  Cosmopolitan
and  Vogue , are sometimes called  chick mags !
© British Broadcasting Corporation 2007


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