Because slang captures elements of humanity that are not recorded elsewhere. “What slang really does is show us at our most ...

Rev. ed. of: Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. 2nd supplemented ed. 1975. siris_sil_295993 ...

Add “belligerent” and “literati” in an op-ed and stir. “Belligerati!” This recent addition to America’s political lingo -- and hundreds of other coinages -- are compiled in Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: ...

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG (669 pp.)—Compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner — Crowell ($7.50). Webster is a moldy fig. For all its scholarship, the supposedly unabridged dictionary ...

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

Continuing my Blogtown series, where I peruse my favorite book in the world, the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume I, A-G by J.E. Lighter. This week's slang is brought to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the ...

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