'T-h-e-m' spells 'them.' You pronounce it--oh, well, it is not necessary to go over all of them.

What you need is the grammar.

I'll get one and show you how to begin." As she arose, there shot through his mind something that he had read in the etiquette books, and he stood up awkwardly, worrying as to whether he was doing the right thing, and fearing that she might take it as a sign that he was about to go.
"By the way, Mr.Eden," she called back, as she was leaving the room.
"What is _booze_?
You used it several times, you know." "Oh, booze," he laughed.

"It's slang.

It means whiskey an' beer--anything that will make you drunk." "And another thing," she laughed back.