where are the slang come from?
This slang "Not know a B form a battledore" means can not read. but why form battledore? there are no letters in a battledore. Why not from bottle-hood or why not "not know a A from ashbin?

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where are the slang come from?
This slang "Not know a B form a battledore" means can not read. but why form battledore? there are no letters in a battledore.  Why not from bottle-hood or why not "not know a A from ashbin?

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Slangs always creep in to the languages according to the culture of the land. So we cannot pin point the origin of most of them or how, when and who used them for the first time. But Battledore is one of the earliest form of the game called Badminton and not a book.

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Hi, I've never heard this expression, but apparently a battledore is an old name for a book used to teach children to read - I found an explanation here: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ignorance (it's about half way down the page)

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