The days when the word 'cool' really is cool may be numbered, or at least that's the word in the playground. A survey of schoolchildren's slang by publishers Penguin may have revealed it to be the most popular word of the moment, but in our ever-changing world who's to say that cool will not go the same way as 'fab', 'ace' and 'awesome' and become seriously uncool - or should I say 'chad' or 'dry'.
The survey of 1,000 seven-to14-year-olds was conducted with schools through the Puffin book club last summer. Other alternatives to 'cool' were revealed as: wix, sick, deep, bodashes, mint, oudish, the nuts, animal, mad, cracker, crovey, heavy, large, banging and mesmeric. As for 'groovy', this too may not be cool for much longer, especially in the south-east - one Essex schoolboy said that groovy is a 'girl way of saying cool'.
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