Author: Charles HINDLEY (of Booksellers' Row, Strand.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Pierce Egan
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Charles Hindley
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ISBN: 9781330814239
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Excerpt from The True History Tom and Jerry: Or the Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London From the Start to the Finish! With a Key to the Persons and Places, Together With a Vocabulary and Glossary of the Flash and Slang Terms, Occuring in the Course of the Work "Nothing succeeds like success" - or "Fails like failure." Prince Talleyrand cum Baron Nicholson! That Pierce Egan's Life in London, or Tom and Jerry, was a success, we have plenty of printed evidence and 'hearsay'! to prove. And we also know - beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the news of its metropolitan fame went forth with almost telegraphic speed throughout the provinces: - From John o'Groat's House to the Land's End! - From Dan to Beersheba! - and back again! With Life in London, its language became the language of the day; drawing-rooms were turned into chaffing cribs, and rank and beauty learned to patter flash ad nauseam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Pierce Egan
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.

Author: Pierce Egan
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: Pierce Egan
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356219841
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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