Chambers Slang Dictionary

Green, Jonathon

ISBN 10: 0550105638 ISBN 13: 9780550105639

Casa editrice: Chambers, 2010

Riassunto

A first U.S. release of a scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of 21st-century terms, lists explanations of word origins and features a reorganized format for easier use. Original.

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Recensione:

To winch the dictionary onto your knee and open its pages is like entering an orchard full of strange and wonderful fruit.

(Chav? That's SO September 10th - Seven magazine, The Sunday Telegraph 2008-10-26)

A mighty tome dedicated to language’s seedier denizens.

('Green’s search for slanging match', Camden New Journal 2008-10-30)

The most-acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson has every right to blow off ("late 18th century: to boast, to brag". What did you think?) as he wraps up a new edition of this most mind-bendingly addictive guide to taboo talk.

(Boyd Tonkin, The Independent 2008-11-28)

Whether one trawls the pages of Green’s dictionary or merely glances at them, rich discoveries are certain.

('Fulham virgins and other slang pleasures', Harry Hitchings, The Times 2009-02-06)

'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green'

(Martin Amis, Experience 2009-02-06)

Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary... contains more than 4,500 words for drink, 4,000 for drugs, 2,400 for idiots and 634 for buttocks.

It covers five centuries of language from the wrong side of the tracks, but it is the youngest entries that provide some of the greatest amusement.

A Giorgio Armani, for example, in rhyming slang, is a sarnie and a squirrel-kisser is an  environmentalist.

(Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph 2008-09-20)

Jonathon Green is the nation's indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a tireless troweller in the slurry of the unsayable. His Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (1998) and Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008) are phenomenal compendia of "non-standard usages," ranging across the whole lexicon of English bar-room coinages.

(John Walsh, 'Hail to the Professor of Profanity', The Independent 2008-11-12)

L'autore:

Jonathon Green is Britain`s foremost lexicographer of slang. His many publications include Chambers Slang Dictionary, The Slang Thesaurus and Slang Down the Ages. He has also compiled dictionaries of quotations and oral histories of modern culture.

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• Editore: Chambers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0550105638
• ISBN 13: 9780550105639
• Numero di pagine: 1520