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The group hopes the Trump administration can help fast-track payments that the government in Harare has delayed because of economic constraints.

Shingai Nyoka has the details.

This compensation stems from a very controversial period in Zimbabwe's post-independent history, where in roundabout the year 2000, the then leader Robert Mugabe decided that he was going to take over white-owned farms

to the local farmers.

About a quarter of them have signed on to this.

The majority have rejected this.

And so the group that has signed on to this, we understand now through a filing that came out in Washington, is that they have now engaged a company via South Africa, a company in the U.S.

But I think given the fact that President Trump and his response in South Africa has really created political tensions, I think there was a lot of surprise that the farmers have decided to go this route.

Shingai Nyoka in Harare.

One for you now if you've ever been in an argument and you couldn't think of quite the right word to throw back.

We've got some suggestions for you.

There is ambidexter.

That's an untrustworthy double dealer.

Or, my favourite, ninnyhammer for a fool.

Or even boraccio for a drunkard.

They're all words found in the first English dictionary of slang, which was published in 1699 by an anonymous author.

A rare first edition of the book, called A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, is about to come up for auction.

Its contents were apparently aimed at helping the more polite classes learn the language and methods of the thieves, beggars and cheats of London.

With more on the significance of this book, here is Jonathan Green.

He's the author of a more modern slang dictionary.