Comparative analysis of the structural and semantic peculiarities of synonimic nomination in American and British slang (based on the synonymic rows of nouns with the common meaning of "money")

The object of the study is the synonyms of modern English slang. The article examines various approaches to studying the problem of synonymy. It points out that in modern linguistic tradition it is common to view words which differ phonetically and graphically, but are similar in denotative meaning as synonyms. The study notes that synonyms have two major properties. On one hand, they are characterized by semantic closeness. On the other hand, the stylistic peculiarities of synonyms may not match completely. The article studies the main synonymic rows of nouns united by the meaning of "money" in the American and British variants of English language slang. It analyzes the characteristic word-building, structural and semantic peculiarities of the above-listed lexical units and points out the objective regularities of the mutual influence of language and social environment (based on the example of slang expressions naming money).