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Book Synopsis 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by : Francis Grose
Download or read book 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Francis Grose and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been described as defining 'Buckish Slang'. This is the language of the dandies and foppes who were to be found everywhere in nineteenth-century genteel society. Its purpose was to "enable such persons to discuss improper topics even before the ladies, without raising a blush on the cheek of modesty."
Book Synopsis Lexicon Balatronicum by : Francis Grose
Download or read book Lexicon Balatronicum written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by : Captain Francis Grose
Download or read book A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Captain Francis Grose and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of our modern day. Originally published in 1785, the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was one of the first lexicons of English slang, compiled by a militia captain who collected the terms he overheard on his late-night excursions to London's slums, dockyards, and taverns. Now the legacy lives on in this colorful pocket dictionary. • Learn the origin of phrases like "birthday suit" and discover slang lost to time. • An unexpected marriage of lowbrow humor and highbrow wit Discover long lost antique slang and curse words and learn how to incorporate them into modern conversation. A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is perfect for enlivening contemporary conversation with historical phrases; it includes a topical list of words for money, drunkenness, the amorous congress, male and female naughty bits, and so on. • A funny book for wordplay, language, swearing, and insult fans, as well as fans of British humor and culture • Perfect for those who loved How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases by Christopher J. Moore; Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang by Jonathan Bernstein; and The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm by James Napoli
Book Synopsis A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by : Julie Coleman
Download or read book A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries written by Julie Coleman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.
Book Synopsis The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature by : William Thomas Lowndes
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known to Exist in Ms., Illustrative of the Various Dialects of English by : John Howard Nodal
Download or read book A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known to Exist in Ms., Illustrative of the Various Dialects of English written by John Howard Nodal and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known to Exist in Ms by : Walter William Skeat
Download or read book A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known to Exist in Ms written by Walter William Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publications by : English Dialect Society
Download or read book Publications written by English Dialect Society and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published by : Walter William Skeat
Download or read book A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published written by Walter William Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 4 bookseller's catalogues by : Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones
Download or read book 4 bookseller's catalogues written by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century by : William Thomas Lowndes
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of Books ... now on sale by Emerson Charnley, etc by : Emerson CHARNLEY
Download or read book A Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of Books ... now on sale by Emerson Charnley, etc written by Emerson CHARNLEY and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature by : Ruth M. McAdams
Download or read book Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature written by Ruth M. McAdams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorize time as non-progressive and discontinuous. For decades, the dominant view in Victorian studies has been that the period's economic, political, and intellectual developments led to a broad sense that time was defined by continuous improvement-and that this masternarrative of progress was evident across Victorian writings. McAdams contributes to a broader scholarly challenge of this thesis by considering how the irregular life-cycles of individuals and objects undermine Victorian progress. Unfashionable waistcoats, aging courtesans, and remembered conversations in Victorian literature instead reveal numerous alternative conceptions of time theorized against the emerging dominance of a progress narrative. The book uncovers the heterogenous shapes of time imagined by Victorian literature-regress, cyclicality, stasis, and rupture. These sh apes are not simply progress's others, but rather constituent elements of progress's theorization.
Download or read book Words from Hell written by Jess Zafarris and published by Chambers. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conquest and colonialism. It wreaks merciless havoc upon grammar and spelling. It turns clinical terms into insults and children's tales into filthy euphemisms. With an emphasis on understanding where the foulest words in the English language came from-and the disgusting and hilarious histories behind them-this book demonstrates the true filth of our everyday words. But this book is more than just a list of vulgar words and salacious slang. It's a thoughtful analysis of why we deem words as being inappropriate as well as revealing 'good words' that have surprisingly naughty origins. Dirty-minded word nerds and lewd linguistics lovers will derive unadulterated pleasure in leering at the origins of swear words, sexual lingo, inappropriate idioms, violent vocabulary, and terminology for bodily functions-not to mention the unexpectedly foul origins of words you thought were perfectly innocent. If it's inappropriate, stomach-churning, uncomfortable, or offensive, this book reaches into the dark recesses of history and exposes them for all to see. True to the Chambers brand, this book combines humour, scholarly research and a beautiful design. It is a book to enjoy, collect and revisit time and time again.
Book Synopsis A catalogue of new and second-hand books by : George Offor
Download or read book A catalogue of new and second-hand books written by George Offor and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination by : Srividhya Swaminathan
Download or read book Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination written by Srividhya Swaminathan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
Download or read book Alphabet Juice written by Roy Blount and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em? —Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is "over the counter." Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount's Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is "arbitrary." Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of "alligator arm"), and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.
