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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
The definitive work on slang and unconventional English, this edition is fully revised and updated by Paul Beale and includes some 500 new entries. The dictionary gives a fully documented account of English slang over four centuries and will entertain and inform all lovers of the English language.
Hardcover, 1432 pages
Published
May 24th 1984
by Routledge
(first published November 1936)
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Notably much of the slang covered here had roots in the military. Also, given its date of publication nothing of the inernet is here.
Notably much of the slang covered here had roots in the military. Also, given its date of publication nothing of the inernet is here.
I'll pretty much read anything and I now know where a myriad of slang terms and expressions come from thanks to this book which I think I nicked from my headmaster grandad
Partridge's is the go-to book for slang reference, and the fact that it now focuses on a lot of dated or vanished subcultures makes it all the more fascinating.
Despite -- or maybe because of -- its heavy reliance on British slang, I like this one a lot more than Chapman's American slang book. Very detailed and well laid out.
Mar 17, 2013
Cassie
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