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Download or read book Sea Slang written by Frank Charles Bowen and published by London : S. Low, Marston & Company, Limited. This book was released on 1929 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century by : Wilfred Granville
Download or read book Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century written by Wilfred Granville and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
Download or read book Sea Slang written by Frank Charles Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book A, B, Sea written by Jack Lagan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A, B, Sea is an entertaining, comprehensive guide to the language and lore of 21st-century seafarers. This playful mariner’s glossary of nautical terms includes definitions for and cross-references to everything from aft to zenith, brass monkey to tuna tower. This second edition includes many new entries, some purely from the swashbuckler vernacular, and others for serious sailors. Packed with practical advice, this is a dictionary with a difference: many words are illustrated by passages from classic books of the sea, others by the author's experiences aboard an American schooner with a European engine and two boxes of tools. Sample entries from this informative and entertaining dictionary include: Bermuda Triangle: Given a choice between alien creatures and bad weather combined with inept seamanship and navigation, you should vote for the latter every time. The US Coast Guard certainly does. carry away, to: when any part of the standing rigging or a spar breaks it is said to have "carried away." What you say is probably unprintable. seasickness (mal de mer): a form of motion sickness usually brought on by a feeling of well-being and euphoria. Reputedly comes in two stages: during the first you fear you might die, during the second, you fear you might not. The most reliable cure: Stand under a tree.
Book Synopsis The Life of Slang by : Julie Coleman
Download or read book The Life of Slang written by Julie Coleman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why and how slang is used. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company.
Download or read book Sea Slang written by Frank C. Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 2014-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the homegrown "boodle" of the 19th century to current "misunderstandistan" in the Middle East, America's foremost expert on slang reveals military lingo at its most colorful, innovative, brutal, and ironic. Author Paul Dickson introduces some of the "new words and phrases born of conflict, boredom, good humor, bad food, new technology, and the pure horror of war." This newly updated reference extends to the post-9/11 world and the American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recommended by William Safire in his "On Language" column of The New York Times, it features dictionary-style entries, arranged chronologically by conflict, with helpful introductions to each section and an index for convenient reference. "Paul Dickson is a national treasure who deserves a wide audience," declared Library Journal. The author of more than 50 books, Dickson has written extensively on language. This expanded edition of War Slang features new material by journalist Ben Lando, Iraq Bureau Chief for Iraq Oil Report and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and Time. It serves language lovers and military historians alike by adding an eloquent new dimension to our understanding of war.
Download or read book Sea-say written by Marshall Uran and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Sailors' Slang by : Wilfred Granville
Download or read book A Dictionary of Sailors' Slang written by Wilfred Granville and published by [London] : A. Deutsh. This book was released on 1962 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Slang Dictionary by : James Maitland
Download or read book The American Slang Dictionary written by James Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century: Royal Navy, Merchant Navy, Yachtsmen, Fischermen, Bargemen, Canalmen, Miscellaneous by : Wilfred Granville
Download or read book Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century: Royal Navy, Merchant Navy, Yachtsmen, Fischermen, Bargemen, Canalmen, Miscellaneous written by Wilfred Granville and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: