Author: Jamieson Baillie
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Author: Clement Bryce Gunn
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Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Jamieson Baillie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332271507
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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Excerpt from Walter Crighton: Or Reminiscences of George Heriot's Hospital When King James succeeded to the throne of Great Britain in 1603, and the Court was transferred to London, Heriot followed in its train, and he carried his prosperity with him, for in a comparatively short time, by his Scottish thrift and business talent, he amassed what was a consider able fortune in those days, the bulk of which he invested in the purchase of land in the neighbourhood of London and of Edinburgh. He was twice married, but both Wives predeceased him. 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: Baillie Jamieson
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376911466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Joseph Ryland Whitaker
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Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: Scottish History Society
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: J. Ryland Whitaker
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Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Sir Arthur Mitchell
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1588

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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.