Quiz: is your English up-to-the minute?

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Are you a Rate Tart who drives a Chelsea Tractor? Or maybe a Twixter who's into Shoegazing?

Most likely of all, you're just left dazed and confused by the sheer weight of new expressions which creep into the English language every year.

This morning on Breakfast, we'll be talking to the author of a new handbook which translates the latest trendy expressions into the kind of language the rest of us can understand.

Susie Dent, who's the resident word expert on Countdown, talked us through some of her favourites.

She explained that this type of English changes very quickly and many of the words and phrases don't last - in fact the point of it for some is for it to be not understood by the rest of us!

So, how up to date is your English?

Put your knowledge to the test, with Breakfast's instant quiz, devised with the help of Susie Dent's book, Fanboys and Overdogs.

Fanboys and Overdogs: the language report by Susie Dent is published by Oxford University Press