The life of slang / Julie Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Julie, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Slang.

English language.

English language--Slang--History.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 354 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

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:

1 What is Slang? 1

2 Spawning 26

3 Development 49

4 Survival and Metamorphosis 73

5 The Spread of Slang 94

6 Prigs, Culls, and Blosses: Cant and Flash Language 118

7 Jolly Good Show: British Slang to the Twentieth Century 143

8 Whangdoodles and Fixings: Early American Slang 174

9 Bludgers, Sooks, and Moffies: English Slang around the World 206

10 Top Bananas and Bunny-boilers: The Media and Entertainment Age 236

11 Leet to Lols: The Digital Age 266

12 Endsville 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-323) and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

795706885

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.