Updated 03 February 2004, 08.23

Of course the definitions in the Oxford dictionary don't match the definitions teenagers themselves have written, these meanings are very different.

Here's what our teenage definitions are:

Mosher - wears hoodies and baggy trousers. Listens to heavy metal, hates townies

Townie - wears 'normal' clothes, and listens to more pop and r'n'b, hates moshers

Trendy - neither

Apparently I'm a townie - but I'm confused. Or am I?

It seems as if we have to be one or the other, they even label the people who are neither just to make it easier for us to understand them.

We no longer judge by what people feel or who they are. Now we judge by what music we listen to, or how we decide to wear our jeans. How is that fair?

You could miss a best friend or a future love because of the stereotyping that rules our lives today."

Claire, 14

Click on the link top right to find out how!