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The life of slang / Julie Coleman.
LIBRA PE3711 .C65 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleman, Julie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Slang.
- English language.
- English language--Slang--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- In 1960, an Australian journalist overheard some youths a street-corner:
- Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along.
- What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411. read on... Book jacket.
- Contents:
- What is slang?
- Spawning
- Development
- Survival and metamorphosis
- The spread of slang
- Prigs, culls, and blosses : cant and flash language
- Jolly good show : British slang to the twentieth century
- Whangdoodles and fixings : early American slang
- Bludgers, sooks, and moffies : English slang around the world
- Top bananas and bunny-boilers : the media and entertainment age
- Leet to Lols : the digital age
- Endsville.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-323) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780199571994
- 0199571996
- OCLC:
- 754720584
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