Problems of the English vocabulary development in close interaction with the changes, occurring in a social and cultural life of the British community in the second half of the last century, are considered. An author of the article attempts to analyze some difficult moments of new English words translation into Russian.
sociocultural factor, youth subculture, psychedelia, neologism, slang word, detaboo, sexual dictionary, ecologic dictionary, feminism, emancipation, sexism, political correctness