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Other titles in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang series:

  1. Random House Historical Dictionary Slang Volume 1

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang #2: Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: Volume Two, H-O

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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

Review:

"A landmark publication, at one stroke 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

Review:

"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 Review of Books

Review:

"A browser's joy . . . an awesome tribute to the American popular imagination."
-Boston Globe

Table of Contents

v. 1. A-G — v. 2. H-O.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679434641
Other:
Lighter, Jonathan E.
Other:
Lighter, J. E.
Author:
Lighter, Jonathan E.
Author:
Random House
Publisher:
Random House Reference Publishing
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Reference
Subject:
Dictionaries
Subject:
English language
Subject:
Dictionaries - Idioms & Slang
Subject:
Americanisms
Subject:
Slang
Subject:
Americanisms -- Dictionaries.
Subject:
English language -- United States -- Obsolete words -- Dictionaries.
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references.
Series:
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
Series Volume:
2
Publication Date:
September 1997
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
984
Dimensions:
11.47x8.91x1.55 in. 4.44 lbs.

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