Green's Dictionary of Slang (multi-volume set)
Green's Dictionary of Slang (multi-volume set)

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Chambers

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780550104403

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The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language, it covers slang from the past five centuries right up to the present day, from all the different English-speaking countries and regions. Totaling 10.3 million words and over 53,000 entries, the collection provides the definitions of 100,000 words and over 413,000 citations. Every word and phrase is authenticated by genuine and fully-referenced citations of its use, giving the work a level of authority and scholarship unmatched by any other publication in this field. Winner of the Dartmouth Medal RUSA/ALA Outstanding Reference Source 2011 Booklist Editors' Choice Library Journal Best Reference 2011

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1600

ISBN-13: 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

Slang Through the Ages
Slang Through the Ages

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Ntc Publishing Group

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9780844208343

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Takes popular standard English terms and traces the development of their slang equivalents over the past 500 years

Chambers Slang Dictionary
Chambers Slang Dictionary

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780550105639

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A 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.

The Vulgar Tongue
The Vulgar Tongue

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0199398143

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"The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century"--

Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 1445

ISBN-13: 1317908171

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First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.

Days In The Life
Days In The Life

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1448104440

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Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount a shared experience or epoch. . . what anecdotes!'Guardian. Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. 'Glasgow Herald. `This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive?. . . An action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks. 'Spectator.

Crooked Talk
Crooked Talk

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-06-02

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1446472906

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The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national expert on slang, and in Crooked Talk he looks at five hundred years of crooks and conmen - from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the sixteenth century to the blaggers and burners of the twenty-first - as well as the swag, the hideouts, the getaway vehicles and the 'tools of the trade'. Not to mention a substantial detour into the world of prisons that faced those unlucky enough to be caught by the boys in blue. If you have ever wondered when the police were first referred to as pigs, why prison guards became known as redraws, or what precisely the subtle art of dipology involves, then this book has all the answers.

Encyclopedia of Censorship
Encyclopedia of Censorship

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1438110014

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Articles examine the history and evolution of censorship, presented in A to Z format.

Slang Down the Ages
Slang Down the Ages

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9781856266376

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Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections for the racier side of life, at the expense of the more quotidian, let alone respectable - it is no coincidence that the longest chapters in this book concern sex, money, drink and drugs. Slang Down the Ages tackles its subject theme by theme, taking standard English words and phrases and tracing the ingenuity of their slang equivalents over time. In each case approximating 'earliest use'. Be amused by the playfulness of our linguistic heritage, intrigued by our need for encrypted signs and appalied by some of the more bold-faced puns, as Jonathon Green charts five centuries of our developing and ever-diversifying vocabulary.