Tony Thorne - Dictionary of contemporary slang [2007, PDF]

Dictionary of contemporary slang

Год выпуска: 2007
Автор: Tony Thorne
Жанр: Словарь
Издательство: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Формат: PDF
Качество: eBook (изначально компьютерное)
Количество страниц: 513
Описание: Rife with ribaldry, with an amusing contrast between tart words and cool, analytical definitions, this book may mobilize the censors. A typical entry has variant spelling or wording, geographical range, meanings, and comments--often guesswork--on tone, nuance, associations, social context, history, derivation, and related words. Pronunciation is sometimes left unclear. A few slang styles, such as backslang and pig Latin, are noted. Published as the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang in Britain , this work covers Britain, the United States, and Australia well, other English-speaking areas lightly. The author, a lexicographer, draws from the media and personal observation of such users of slang as hippies and Valley Girls. Recommended more as a fun reflection of speech in recent decades than as definitive scholarship. - - William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.