Chambers Slang Dictionary

Chambers Slang Dictionary PDF Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN: 9780550105639
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.

Chambers Slang Dictionary

Chambers Slang Dictionary PDF Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN: 9780550105639
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang PDF Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600

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With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary PDF Author: E. M. Kirkpatrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1583

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Chambers Dictionary of Etymology

Chambers Dictionary of Etymology PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1284

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Chamber Concise Dictionary

Chamber Concise Dictionary PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788186062364
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1476

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Chambers Family Scrabble Dictionary

Chambers Family Scrabble Dictionary PDF Author: Chambers
Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780550120113
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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A major new dictionary for all family and recreational players of Scrabble

Chambers Paperback Thesaurus

Chambers Paperback Thesaurus PDF Author: Editors of Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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This thesaurus has been designed to provide users with the most useful words first. It includes over 300 panels of thematically related words, with more than 180,000 alternative words in all.

Slang Through the Ages

Slang Through the Ages PDF Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Ntc Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780844208343
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Book Description
Takes popular standard English terms and traces the development of their slang equivalents over the past 500 years

Chambers Concise Dictionary

Chambers Concise Dictionary PDF Author: Ian Brookes
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN: 9780550100726
Category : Anglais (Langue) - Dictionnaires
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Includes over 1000 new entries, this title is based on the ninth edition of the 'Chambers dictionary'. It contains many technical terms from fields such as science, business and sport and also includes hundreds of usage notes and word histories, as well as spelling and grammar tips.

Days In The Life

Days In The Life PDF Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448104440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount a shared experience or epoch. . . what anecdotes!'Guardian. Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. 'Glasgow Herald. `This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive?. . . An action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks. 'Spectator.