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Download or read book Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly used slang, there are sections that give the reader insight into more unusual areas such as Cockney slang, slang in journalism and slang in commerce, as well as slang used by sailors, the law and the church. The book will be of interest to scholars and the general readers who take an interest in language.
Book Synopsis The Stories of Slang by : Jonathon Green
Download or read book The Stories of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If you're up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.' Kory Stamper, Times Literary Supplement 'Few lexicographers are lucky enough to have both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly about [slang]. Jonathon Green is one . . . Lovers of language should be grateful to those who create slang, and to those few like Mr Green who make it their work to open this window into the psyche for the benefit of all.' - The Economist 'By turns bawdy, sweary and irreverent, this book . . . is a fascinating look at how centuries of slang came to inform all aspects of social life, how it was used, and how much of it still lingers.' History Revealed Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring, sharing and compassion? Not at this address. There are over 10,000 terms focusing on sex, but love? Not one. Jonathon Green, aka 'Mr Slang', has drawn on the 600,000-plus citations that make up his magisterial Green's Dictionary of Slang (published 2010, now online at www.greensdictofslang.com) to tell some of slang's most entertaining stories. Categories range from The Body to Pulp Diction, via multi-cultural London English and pun-tastic gems. Mostly gazing up from the gutter, slang, perhaps surprisingly, also embraces the stars. These stories may look at drunken sailors, dubious doctors, and a shelf of dangerously potent cocktails, but slang does class acts as well. None more so than Shakespeare. Devotee of the double entendre, master of the pun, first to put nearly 300 slang terms in print. 'Shakespeare, uses, at my count, just over five hundred "slang" terms, of which 277 are currently the first recorded use of a given term. Among these are the beast with two backs, every mother's son, fat-headed, heifer (for woman), pickers and stealers (hands), small beer (insignificant matters), what the dickens, and many more.' http://jonathongreen.co.uk
Book Synopsis The American Slang Dictionary by : James Maitland
Download or read book The American Slang Dictionary written by James Maitland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland (1891) is an enjoyable artifact from the middle of the 19th century- offering a glimpse into the language that was used by the people. ""This work, therefore, while aiming to present a full list of distinctively American slang, -that which is born of the soil will include also the recognized slang words and phrases of english origin and use. No such collection has heretofore been made"" - James Maitland
Book Synopsis Slang To-Day and Yesterday by : Eric Partridge
Download or read book Slang To-Day and Yesterday written by Eric Partridge and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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 2008-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Download or read book War Slang written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 19th century's "boodle" to the "deep serious" of Vietnam and beyond, America's foremost expert on slang reveals military lingo at its most colorful, innovative, brutal, and ironic. Recommended by The New York Times' language maven William Safire, this up-to-date reference features convenient dictionary-style entries arranged chronologically by conflict.
Download or read book The Sea Breeze written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eight Cousins by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Eight Cousins written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day by : Eric Partridge
Download or read book A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day written by Eric Partridge and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Oliver Optic's Magazine for Young and Old by : Oliver Optic
Download or read book Oliver Optic's Magazine for Young and Old written by Oliver Optic and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Curse of Pirini Lilapa by : Michael E. Thies
Download or read book The Curse of Pirini Lilapa written by Michael E. Thies and published by Michael E. Thies. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trials have concluded. Since its conclusion, Hydro, Eirek, and Zain have gone their separate paths, thinking each other a distant memory. However, fate has other plans. As the three travel their paths, they find that their lives are not so separate after all. Zain’s quest to heal a broken friendship challenges his ability to lead. It requires him to make amends with his past demons, and to give that which can only be given once. Hydro’s journey to discover more information on his necklace leads him to a mysterious woman who challenges the very fiber of his identity. It tests his Paen pride in situations with unfathomable consequences. And Eirek’s training pushes him to shed his shell of inferiority for one hardened confidence if he wishes to survive the rigors of his apprenticeship. All, however, travel and train under the ever-watchful gaze of the suns which draw closer to their convergence. To an event infamous for bringing bad luck, sorrow, and pain. To an event that occurs every 150 years. To an event known as Pirini Lilapa. Some look to the sky in superstition. Others look to the sky in fear. And yet, some look to the sky in contemplation. For in the weeks and days before the suns converge, deities die, enemies emerge, and families are fractured as no one is safe from their harsh and heinous gaze. . . Continue the thrilling adventure space fantasy series The Guardian of the Core today!
Book Synopsis Commerce Yearbook [1922-] 1932 by : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Download or read book Commerce Yearbook [1922-] 1932 written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adventures of a Younger Son by : Edward John Trelawny
Download or read book Adventures of a Younger Son written by Edward John Trelawny and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Empire of Air and Water by : Siobhan Carroll
Download or read book An Empire of Air and Water written by Siobhan Carroll and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.