Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Lighter, Jonathan E.

ISBN 10: 067943464X / ISBN 13: 9780679434641

Editore: Random House Reference Publishing, 1997

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Riassunto:

The second volume in a monumental, scholarly, but entertaining reference work on American slang, both current and obsolete, includes extensive dated citations to illustrate each word's use and information on the origins of each. 15,000 first printing.

Recensione: "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

"A monumental book."
--The New York Times

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

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

"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

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

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Titolo: Random House Historical Dictionary of ...
Casa editrice: Random House Reference Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket