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Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780550105639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1600
ISBN-13: 9780304366361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 1583
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1476
ISBN-13: 9788186062364
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chambers
Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9780550120113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new dictionary for all family and recreational players of Scrabble
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2006-01-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780304368242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 6,500 off-color phrases, all vividly, explicitly defined. Categories include body sites, arousal and frustration, masturbation, orgasm, oral, kinky, gay, bi, and safe sex, and more. Sources range from street jargon and popular music lyrics to literary allusions, fascinating etymologies, and rhyming slang.
Author: Editors of Chambers
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesaurus has been designed to provide users with the most useful words first. It includes over 300 panels of thematically related words, with more than 180,000 alternative words in all.
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Ntc Publishing Group
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780844208343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes popular standard English terms and traces the development of their slang equivalents over the past 500 years
Author: Russ Willey
Publisher: Chambers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780550104458
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