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Random House Historical Dictionary Slang Volume 1

by Random House

Random House Historical Dictionary Slang Volume 1 Cover

ISBN13: 9780394544274
ISBN10: 0394544277
Condition: Worn Condition or Underlined
Dustjacket: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

The only historical dictionary of slang — spanning three hundred years of slang use in America.

Review:

"A landmark publication, at on estroke sweeping its predecessors into the shade. . . It is one of those rare books that prompts the realization that you have never seen the subject in such sharp focus before."
-John A. Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary

Review:

"A monumental book."
-The New York Times

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"Will do for nonstandard English what the Oxford English Dictionary did for the whole language".
-William Safire

Review:

"No one has ever created a scholarly work that is more fun."
-Newsweek

Review:

"The funniest. . . work of profound lexicographical slang-scholarship ever published. . . The book belongs on every patriotice coffee table."
-Nicholson Baker, The New Revies of Books

Review:

"A browser's joy. . . an awesome tribute to the American popular imagination."
-Boston Globe
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ISBN:
9780394544274
Other:
Lighter, Jonathan E.
Other:
Lighter, J. E.
Author:
Lighter, Jonathan E.
Author:
Random House
Publisher:
Random House Reference Publishing
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Dictionaries
Subject:
English language
Subject:
History
Subject:
Linguistics
Subject:
Dictionaries - Idioms & Slang
Subject:
Americanisms
Subject:
Slang
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references.
Series:
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
Series Volume:
98-137
Publication Date:
June 1994
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
1080
Dimensions:
11.35x9.01x2.08 in. 6.12 lbs.
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