Jonathon Green

Introduction to the Second Edition Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was published In late 1998; it offered some 74,500 entries, covering worldwide anglophone slang from the early 16th century to the late 20th. The last seven years have moved the world into a new century, and this second edition,...

'Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.' Carl SandburgAlongside Standard English, the ostensibly 'pure' language of formal speech and writing, of Times leaders and BBC erudition, stand several sub-species of language, less beloved of Eng. Lit. teachers,...

Fedlapok élei kopottak.