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Author | : Jonathon Green |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 1600 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780304366361 |
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With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author | : Jonathon Green |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 1316 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780304350735 |
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Author | : Jonathon Green |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 1316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780304344352 |
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Contains over 65,000 slang words, definitions, where and when the word originated, and more.
Author | : Jonathon Green |
Publisher | : Cassell PLC |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780304351978 |
Download Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Brings together devastating views on figures as diverse as Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Marilyn MonroeIncludes coverage of national insults, and attacks on professions, institutions and placesFull author indexNow in paperback
Author | : Jonathon Green |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780304355136 |
Download Cassell's Rhyming Slang Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Want rice and Aberdeens for dinner? Or andy mcnish--wouldn't that be apples and spice? It's rhyme time, and this witty, wildly inventive dictionary will inform you those "code words" stand for beans, fish, and nice. Amazingly detailed, it includes a history of rhyming slang, 100 categories, and over 2,500 phrases. Best of all, it takes a "bilingual" approach that lets you learn new slang while looking up the old!
Author | : Rosalind Fergusson |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780304363841 |
Download Cassell's Dictionary of English Idioms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Idioms are the expressions peculiar to any language, and English is about as peculiar as languages come! Why do people "argue the toss"?; and how do people "bring home the bacon"? This volume provides a full and thorough guide to both the most recent and more archaic turns of phrase.
Author | : Jonathon Green |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 0198729537 |
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"In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looking forward, he considers what the digital revolution means for the future of slang."--Cover flap.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : English language |
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Download The Cassell Dictionary and Thesaurus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 1120 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : English language |
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Download Cassell's English Dictionary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : E. M. Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 1277 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780304350049 |
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It's two books in one, with over 200,000 entries -- and that saves time and trouble! This combination of dictionary and thesaurus brings you right to the word you need. Because the synonyms are linked to definitions, it's less likely you'll choose one that doesn't convey exactly the right meaning. Of course, it also does everything you'd expect a regular dictionary to do -- detail grammar, highlight slang, suggest antonyms, and give pronunciation guidelines.